Martha Hall Kelly. LILAC GIRLS. Ballantine/Penguin, 2017.
Book Club selection for September meeting, Lilac Girls, is almost 500 pages. It is based on true stories of a New York philanthropist & the Polish women in a Nazi concentration camp, Ravensbruck. After Born a Crime, this is my favourite book club book so far. It follows the lives of three women, American, Polish, & German, through WW II and after. Although some of the info about experiments on human guinea pigs is tough to read, it seemed important not to turn away from truths of history nor to blind myself to the reality that similar challenges are being lived today in Ukraine, Gaza, and America (and probably many other places we hear less news from).
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