Heimat: A German Family Album by Nora Krug

4.32 AVERAGE

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emilysbookishlife's review against another edition

3.5
challenging emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced
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heather_palmer's review against another edition

4.0
challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

lulu_readsalot's review against another edition

4.0
A heart-moving and easy to read scrapbook of a very difficult reality. I really liked it and would definitely recommend it
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sar_i's review against another edition

2.0
dark slow-paced
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leya's review

4.0
challenging informative sad medium-paced
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bookwyrmknits's review against another edition

5.0
challenging hopeful informative slow-paced
About one-third to half of the book talks about Krug's childhood and her search for a sense of self. The rest of the book goes into her search for the truth about her family's activities during the war. She knew a little going into her search, but much of that was family story... and she didn't know how true the tales passed down actually were. She was very dedicated to her search, interviewing everyone she could and looking through military archives in search of her family's activities. Reading about how much she put into her research was impressive and daunting and gives you (the reader) a sense of just how important this was to her.

If you have the opportunity, please read this book. It is a reminder that good people can do questionable things; that we can't know how we would react in a situation without being there; that people do still help others even when helping could put them in danger. This is a book that I will carry with me for a long time to come (figuratively, of course... I have to return the physical copy to the library before its due date).
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thinkaholicer's review against another edition

3.75
challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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drjohnbrown's review against another edition

5.0
challenging reflective sad slow-paced
Absolutely astounding.

_fanny_'s review

4.0
informative reflective relaxing medium-paced

sophiisposh's review

5.0
dark informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced