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I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor
243 pp.
| Atheneum |
June, 2005 |
TradeISBN 0-689-86980-0$16.95
(2)
YA
This is a painful alternative to Holocaust narratives that accent the hope and play down the horrors. Witness to unthinkable random brutality, Hillman, frantic to believe that there is a reason for the suffering, asks: "God, what have we done that you have forsaken us?" Hillman writes matter-of-factly about it all. The book includes a few family photographs that Hillman hid throughout her ordeal.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2005