Can you save a child by sending it away? This theme is brilliantly woven into the European World War II complex background.
Cyrla is half jewish and living a delicately balanced life in occupied Holland. Her assets: her mother's blond hair and other Dutch features. Her liabilities: her ties to the Jewish Community.
Circumstances find her going to a Nazi run maternity home called a Lebensborn. The Nazis think she is carrying a German Soldier's Baby, but in reality the father is Jewish with very Jewish features. The suspense progresses as her pregnancy progresses balanced with an excellent narrative of the Lebensborn and the well-rounded characters.
As Cyrla desperately tries to make a decision on what is best for her baby, she is continually brought back to her own family history, new truths emerge about a baby's father, and her own discovery of love.
This beautifully written novels finds me filled with hope for a happy ending during a time when history shows us was extremely dismal (at best) for the European Jews.
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