![]() As she falls in love with him, she feels betrayed when he deserts her at her sister’s home. She meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France. But her heroics are personal as well, enduring severe brutality to keep her children alive and to find word about her captured husband. Knowing she can no longer stay on the sidelines, Vianne decides to save nineteen Jewish children by hiding them in a convent and creating false identity papers. After Captain Beck disappears another German, a Gestapo Agent, Sturmbann Fuhrer Von Richter, requisitions their home, brutally forcing Vianne to acquiesce to his male desires. This is where Vianne decides she must risk her and her daughter’s life by taking in a Jewish baby, her best friend’s son, when his mother is sent to a concentration camp. ![]() Even worse, the French Jews were being deported to concentration camps. Through her eyes, readers understand the brutality of the Germans as they loot, steal, beat, and starve the French population. Without food, money or hope, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive. When a German, Captain Beck, requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter Sophie must live with the enemy or lose everything. In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. The story begins in 1995 as one of the sisters tells what happened to her and her sister starting in 1939 France. ![]() They showed incredible strength during these terrible times in Nazi-occupied France. Vianne and Isabelle embarked on their own dangerous path that included survival, courageousness, love, and resilience. The plot has two sisters who are both heroic and martyrs for their unselfish acts. While people are locked down they might want to pick up this novel, which is very relevant to today considering that Yom HaShoah, The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes Remembrance Day, has just been observed. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah is a must read for anyone who has never read this historical novel that was first published in 2015.
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