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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
This was so good. A natural heart-wrenching story but what novel about World War II isn't? I loved this tale of grief and revenge and redemption and growing and acceptance. I'll have more to write later but I'm going to let this just sink in for a while.
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Cedarburg book club March 2023
I have enjoyed the other books I've read by Kelly Rimmer.
I knew about the Warsaw Guetto uprising, but I didn't know about the Warsaw proper uprising -
I know of Dunkirk, probably because of the movie. I found there is a Warsaw Uprising Documentary...to watch....
The Warsaw Orphan rotates between Elzbieta/Emilia and Roman.
Emilia has her own secrets and family genetics so to speak. Many of her actions follow the actions of her real father and brother. She is fortunate to have been taken in by a family who gets her counterfeit papers and away from her hometown. But she is suffocated by concerns of her safety and she seeks friendship with a women on their floor who is a nurse/social worker. Sara's work takes her to the Warsaw ghetto where she helps smuggle out children. Her group keeps records of the children. I expected the records would be in a neat ledger...they were kept on cigarette papers.
Roman and his family are confined in the ghetto. His step dad is optimistic that things will get better ... we know the truth. Sara gets the baby out and to a family. Roman is at the community center when his family is taken. After they are gone, he joins the ghetto revolution.
The Warsaw uprising seems to be going well, but it falls in the end and citizen are taken to camps.
Emilia and her family go to the texile factory of the uncle. Times are still hard, now they have the Russians... Emilia encounters tradegy, the family returns to Warsaw to find Sara and Roman.
Emilia makes some very difficult and sound decisions.
The book involes disaster, death, survival, recovery, and family reunification.
Cover/title? who does the title & cover protray? Sure, Emilia and Roman.
but also Elianora and Anatoll(ms)
Notes from https://theglossbookclub.com/special-note-kelly-rimmer-on-the-warsaw-orphan/
Sara inspired by "Irena Sendler was a Polish nurse and social worker, and working with a team of other Polish women, she facilitated the rescue of more than 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto" " I [Kelly Rimmer] became fascinated by Irena after reading Irena’s Children by Tilar J. Mazzeo and Life in a Jar by Jack Mayer."
I have enjoyed the other books I've read by Kelly Rimmer.
I knew about the Warsaw Guetto uprising, but I didn't know about the Warsaw proper uprising -
I know of Dunkirk, probably because of the movie. I found there is a Warsaw Uprising Documentary...to watch....
The Warsaw Orphan rotates between Elzbieta/Emilia and Roman.
Emilia has her own secrets and family genetics so to speak. Many of her actions follow the actions of her real father and brother. She is fortunate to have been taken in by a family who gets her counterfeit papers and away from her hometown. But she is suffocated by concerns of her safety and she seeks friendship with a women on their floor who is a nurse/social worker. Sara's work takes her to the Warsaw ghetto where she helps smuggle out children. Her group keeps records of the children. I expected the records would be in a neat ledger...they were kept on cigarette papers.
Roman and his family are confined in the ghetto. His step dad is optimistic that things will get better ... we know the truth. Sara gets the baby out and to a family. Roman is at the community center when his family is taken. After they are gone, he joins the ghetto revolution.
The Warsaw uprising seems to be going well, but it falls in the end and citizen are taken to camps.
Emilia and her family go to the texile factory of the uncle. Times are still hard, now they have the Russians... Emilia encounters tradegy, the family returns to Warsaw to find Sara and Roman.
Emilia makes some very difficult and sound decisions.
The book involes disaster, death, survival, recovery, and family reunification.
Cover/title? who does the title & cover protray? Sure, Emilia and Roman.
but also Elianora and Anatoll(ms)
Notes from https://theglossbookclub.com/special-note-kelly-rimmer-on-the-warsaw-orphan/
Sara inspired by "Irena Sendler was a Polish nurse and social worker, and working with a team of other Polish women, she facilitated the rescue of more than 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto" " I [Kelly Rimmer] became fascinated by Irena after reading Irena’s Children by Tilar J. Mazzeo and Life in a Jar by Jack Mayer."
This was a 5 star book until the last fourth of the book. The author was fabulous at slowly telling the story and developing the characters, and then the end (post-war) was just rushed and didn’t fit the way the rest of the story had been told. Kind of a bummer.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It’s the Spring of 1942 and life in Warsaw is getting increasingly scary. Elzbieta, a young girl living in the heart of Warsaw, hasn’t been untouched by the horrors of War but she has lived blissfully unaware of the troubles of the local Jewish community. Roman, on the other hand, does not remember life outside of the Warsaw Ghetto. When their paths eventually cross, their lives become forever intertwined. This was a gritty, hold no punches historical fiction. I found myself crying often and wondering, once more, what would I have done if I was living in the midst of WWII, desperate to keep my family alive and together.
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Another amazing read by Kelly Rimmer. Beautifully written.
There are some books that will haunt days, months, years after you have finished them. This is one of them.
In the beginning of the year, I borrowed eight books from my sister, and this was one of them. I chose to borrow this one because I wanted to broaden my reading horizons, but I never actually wanted to read it. So, when it came time to read this one, I sighed very heavily and began.
20 pages in and I already liked it a lot. Before I was even half way through the book I'd cried twice. The last half of the book, I was sobbing the entire time.
The story is beautiful, very well written, and just overall wow.
I'd read it again and recommend it to everyone.
20 pages in and I already liked it a lot. Before I was even half way through the book I'd cried twice. The last half of the book, I was sobbing the entire time.
The story is beautiful, very well written, and just overall wow.
I'd read it again and recommend it to everyone.