By Kelly Bridgewater
A Family's Ties Were Broken in Poland of 1939 1939
Helena Kostyszak is an oddity—an educated female ethnic minority lecturing at a
university in Krakow at the outbreak of WWII. When the Germans close the
university and force Jews into the ghetto, she spirits out a friend's infant
daughter and flees to her small village in the southern hills. Helena does
everything in her power to protect her family, but it may not be enough. It
will take all of her strength and God's intervention for both of them to survive
the war and the ethnic cleansing to come. 2023 Recently unengaged social
worker McKenna Muir is dealt an awful blow when a two-year-old she's been
working with is murdered. It's all too much to take, so her friend suggests she
dive into her family's past like she's always wanted. Putting distance between
herself and her problems might help her heal, so she and her friend head on
Sabbatical to Poland. But what McKenna discovers about her family shocks
everyone, including one long-lost family member.
My
Thoughts:
What
I Left for You by Liz Tolsma brings light to a
small culture that has been erased by the Nazi's during World War II. She does
a wonderful job at creating a story to show the lengths a mother would go to
find her child again. Even put her own health at risk. Tolsma shows the horrors
of a concentration camp with truth and grit. She does not shy away from the
horrors inflicted on the bodies of these innocent people. The plot is not that
much different than a lot of the World War II novels that I have read. Yes,
Tolsma based it on true stories, and there are tons of them, but it is hard to
be different when the plight was felt by so many of these people. The setting
was definitely different with the small, uneducated people being forced to move
and forget their heritage. Overall, What
I left for You by Liz Tolsma was a World War II novel that tugged at the
heart, but ends in a happily-ever-after meeting.
I received a complimentary copy of What I Left for You by Liz Tolsma from
Barbour Publishing, but the opinions stared are all my own.
My
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Purchase What I Left For You
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