Broken Angels by
Gemma Liviero is a story about the horrors of the Holocaust during World War
II. Told from the perspective of three individuals: a Nazi doctor, a Jewish
woman and a young girl, the events during the war and the programs of the Nazis
are told in vivid detail.
The story opens in 1996 with the funeral of a mother. Time
is transported back to 1942 as a young Jewish woman, Elsi, helps her mother see
the Nazi doctor assigned to the Lodz Ghetto. Willem Gerhardt is a doctor who is
the son of one of Himmler’s top researchers. Matilda is a part-German child who
is taken from her family and placed in a home in the hopes of molding her into
the perfect Aryan child for a German family. As events unfold. Willem is confronted
with the horrors and atrocities that the Nazis are doing to the Jewish people. He
is sent to oversee the children’s program and he enters Matilda’s life. One
night after a tragic loss, he sees Elsi, ill and being loaded onto a truck and
decides to save her. He takes her in and treats her illness. He soon learns
that the children who deemed unfit for adoption are being sent to the camps. He
begins to falsify documents and save these children’s lives. Will he able to
save these children’s lives? Will he be caught?
Broken Angels is a
beautiful and heartbreaking story of Germany during the war. The atrocities of
the Nazis, the indoctrination, the experimentation and the blatant disregard of
human life. But it also a story of the unsung heroes who did their best to save
lives despite the horrors around them and the dangers to their lives. There
were moments in the story when the horrific events were just too much and I had
to stop reading and process. I recommend Broken
Angels as a deep look into events of World War II that many do not read about
or don’t want to know about. Keeping the memories of the men and women who lost
their lives simply because they were Jewish alive is important. We cannot
forget them and Broken Angels will
ensure that you never do.
Broken Angels
is available on Amazon
and Barnes and Noble.com
in paperback $14.95
Kindle Unlimited for
free
and Audiobook $14.99
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