I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree - Laura Hillman

In 1942 Hannelore Wolff, a teenager at a boarding school for Jewish girls in Berlin, received news of her father’s death, within weeks of his arrest and transfer to Buchenwald concentration camp. Not long after, Hannelore received another letter from her mother, who had been notified that she and her sons would be deported. Hannelore’s mother urged her, “Do what you can to save yourself.” However, not wishing to let her mother and brothers go through the experience without her, Hannelore took the brave (or possibly foolish) decision to be deported with them. This book is a true account of the ... more