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The Kommandant's Girl

by Pam Jenoff

A hidden identity in occupied Krakow

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    New York Times bestselling author

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A hidden identity in occupied Krakow

Set in Poland during the Nazi occupation, the novel centers on Emma Bau, newly married when her husband is forced underground and she is left in the Jewish ghetto. The resistance brings her to Krakow, where she assumes the identity of Anna Lipowski and takes a job as an assistant to a high-ranking Nazi official. That position places her concealed identity alongside the dangers facing the people she cares about. The premise brings together wartime survival, resistance, and the risks of living under an assumed identity, with Emma’s choices shaped by the pressures of occupation.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in historical fiction set during World War II and the Holocaust.
  • Readers seeking a wartime story focused on resistance and a woman living under a hidden identity.
  • Readers interested in dilemmas involving loyalty, survival, and personal risk.

Themes

Wartime survivalResistanceHidden identityLoyalty and risk

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Book overview

Look for Pam Jenoff's new novel, The Society of Forgotten Wives, a sweeping novel of missing husbands and buried secrets.

In her luminous and groundbreaking debut, New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff shows the unimaginable sacrifices one woman must make in a time of war

Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into Poland. Within days Emma's husband is forced to disappear underground, leaving her alone in the Jewish ghetto. In the dead of night, the resistance smuggles her out and brings her to Krakow, where she takes on a new identity as Anna Lipowski, a gentile.

Emma's already precarious situation is complicated by her introduction to Kommandant Richwalder, a high-ranking Nazi official who hires her to work as his assistant. As the atrocities of war intensify, Emma must make unthinkable choices that will force her to risk not only her double life, but also the lives of those she loves.

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