Those who save us
For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald.
Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor of German history, begins investigating the past and finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother's life.
Combining a passionate, doomed love story, a vivid evocation of life during the war, and a poignant mother/daughter drama, Those Who Save Us is a profound exploration of what we endure to survive and the legacy of shame.
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About the Author
JENNA BLUM is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of novels THOSE WHO SAVE US, THE STORMCHASERS, and THE LOST FAMILY; the novella “The Lucky One” in the collection GRAND CENTRAL; memoir WOODROW ON THE BENCH, about her senior black Lab and what his last seven months taught her; audiocourse “The Author At Work: The Art of Writing Fiction”; and WWII audiodrama THE KEY OF LOVE, available on every major podcast streaming platform. Jenna is one of Oprah’s Top Thirty Women Writers, with her work published in over 20 countries, and cofounder/CEO of the online author platform A Mighty Blaze. Jenna’s New York Times and internationally bestselling first novel, THOSE WHO SAVE US, won the Ribalow Prize, awarded by Hadassah Magazine and adjudged by Elie Wiesel; Jenna interviewed Holocaust survivors for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation for five years. THOSE WHO SAVE US was also a Borders pick and the #1 bestselling novel in Holland. THE STORMCHASERS was a Boston Globe bestseller, a Target Emerging Authors pick, featured in Elle Magazine, and a bestseller in France and Holland; THE LOST FAMILY, also a bestseller, was an Indiebound pick and garnered starred reviews from all four major trades: Booklist, Publishers’ Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal. Jenna’s bestselling memoir WOODROW ON THE BENCH was a Midwestern Booksellers’ pick and is now available in paperback. Jenna is at work on her next book.
Jenna is a public speaker, traveling nationally and internationally; she has visited over 800 book clubs in the Boston area alone! She currently speaks about her work in person and online. Jenna is also a teacher, having taught creative writing and journalism at Boston University, from which she earned an M.A. in 1997; Grub Street Writers, where she ran fiction, novel, and writer marketing workshops for over twenty years; and various other institutions. In addition to being acting CEO for A Mighty Blaze, which Jenna created with novelist Caroline Leavitt and a team of 35 creative professional volunteers during the pandemic to put authors online, Jenna now teaches workshops via Blaze Writers Project, based in Boston and online.
For more information about Jenna, her writing, speaking, teaching, black Labs, and adventures, please visit her website, www.jennablum.com, and follow her on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.