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It has been a long time since I've read a novel this moving. The story alternates between three characters. Caroline Ferriday, socialite and former actress in New York, works at the French embassy as WWII starts. The book features a romance between her and a French actor, and this story weaves in and out, not seeming to connect until at last it does. However, you don't mind your time with Caroline, although she is not the most compelling figure.

By far, that would be Kasia, spunky Polish teenager, who wants to be part of fighting the Germans and is caught up in the Polish underground. Before long, her boyfriend, sister and mother are all arrested and sent to a women's concentration camp for "re-education", a place where Nazi doctors performed unsavory operations on human subjects. This story reminds us all of the horror of Nazi Germany, of the huge numbers of people they killed, of all nationalities and backgrounds, and of the madness that Hitler was able to convince so many people to believe. Kasia throughout the story is brave, tough, but not entirely unbroken.

Finally, the most gut-wrenching parts of the story involve Herta, a Nazi doctor that somehow convinces herself that she is doing the right thing, the patriotic thing. It was so sickening to read that sometimes I had to put the book down and look away, as much as Kasia's sections sucked me in and kept me turning pages. She's an anti-heroine, but it's still important to understand her story, and what drove her - and she is a key part of the total story that is told. Don't worry - she doesn't get away with it and you never truly sympathise with her.

The book was well-written and apparently well-researched judging by the notes. The author was a former journalist and that shows the mark of it, and yet, it reads as fiction even though many of the characters were real people of that time period.


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Lilac Girls A Novel Martha Hall Kelly 9781101883075 Books Reviews

This was not as good as I expected it to be. The story has so much potential. The description of Ravensbruck, the women and the events there were fascinating to read, and I very much appreciate that aspect of the novel. Caroline Ferriday seems like such an interesting subject to write about. I honestly didn't like the relationship between Caroline and Paul; I felt too much attention was given to the relationship in a manner that often made Caroline seem a little petty. Since the relationship with Paul Rodierre was the fictional element brought into the protagonist's life, it may have done her a slight injustice. There was too much detail and dialogue that concentrated on trivial events in comparison with the real events which are the heart of the novel.
This is a great story overall, although it certainly has some flaws. The principal one that I found was the character Caroline Ferriday in the way that she is portrayed. She seems to lack the depth of her real life counterpart who came to the aid of not only many French orphans but the poor imprisoned Polish women who history may have forgotten if not for her efforts. The story’s real strength is in these characters; those who are referred to as the rabbits. These girls and women were victims of hideous and brutal experiments done on them by Nazi doctors in the Ravensbruck Concentration camp and were called the rabbits because they hopped due to their disfiguring surgeries and due to the way they were treated- like experimental animals. Two of the main characters who are the hapless victims of these horrific experiments are Kasia and Zuzanna.They are sisters and their love for each other helps them to survive this ghastly experience.

Despite, the story sometimes getting bogged down by the snobbery of high society and a love story between Caroline and a French actor that really doesn’t serve the plot in any meaningful way, this story is a compelling read with much to say about the resilience of the human spirit to endure...despite evil all around and to even ultimately triumph! The ending was particularly powerful when the tables are turned and the prisoner finally gets the chance to confront her captor. it is a poignant story which will keep you engaged with many twists and turns of the plot and will enlighten you about a period in the world’s history which can never be forgotten!
Lilac Girls is one of the most moving Holocaust novels this reviewer has ever read. The story covers a twenty year period from 1939-1959. Kelly's exhaustive archival research, interviews of concentration camp survivors and visits to sites in the US, Poland, Germany and France make her work more one of fact than of fiction. At first the reader meets Caroline Ferriday, who really lived as a socialite, Broadway actress, charity worker and volunteer at the NY French consulate. Then, there are the Polish Kusmerick sisters, based on real sisters from Lublin, who were interred at the all women's concentration camp at Ravensbrück, Germany. There they and 72 other inmates were subjected to hedonistic and debilitating operations and injections performed by Nazi physicians. Many of these inmates could no longer walk erect, but were reduced to hopping for which they were dubbed "the Rabbits of Ravensbrück". They suffered and while some succomed, others survived to give testomony to their ordeal. Finally, and perhaps most strikingly, there is Herta Oberhauser, one of the real Nazi doctors who performs these "experimental procedures" on the inmates. After the war, Dr Oberhauser was captured, tried at the doctors' trial in Nuremburg and incarcerated. With great mastery, the author intertwines the lives of all of these female characters as though she were plaiting a neat braid in which the ends unite in a satisfying whole. These are charcters and expriences that resonate with the reader, long after the last page is read.
It has been a long time since I've read a novel this moving. The story alternates between three characters. Caroline Ferriday, socialite and former actress in New York, works at the French embassy as WWII starts. The book features a romance between her and a French actor, and this story weaves in and out, not seeming to connect until at last it does. However, you don't mind your time with Caroline, although she is not the most compelling figure.

By far, that would be Kasia, spunky Polish teenager, who wants to be part of fighting the Germans and is caught up in the Polish underground. Before long, her boyfriend, sister and mother are all arrested and sent to a women's concentration camp for "re-education", a place where Nazi doctors performed unsavory operations on human subjects. This story reminds us all of the horror of Nazi Germany, of the huge numbers of people they killed, of all nationalities and backgrounds, and of the madness that Hitler was able to convince so many people to believe. Kasia throughout the story is brave, tough, but not entirely unbroken.

Finally, the most gut-wrenching parts of the story involve Herta, a Nazi doctor that somehow convinces herself that she is doing the right thing, the patriotic thing. It was so sickening to read that sometimes I had to put the book down and look away, as much as Kasia's sections sucked me in and kept me turning pages. She's an anti-heroine, but it's still important to understand her story, and what drove her - and she is a key part of the total story that is told. Don't worry - she doesn't get away with it and you never truly sympathise with her.

The book was well-written and apparently well-researched judging by the notes. The author was a former journalist and that shows the mark of it, and yet, it reads as fiction even though many of the characters were real people of that time period.