num_pages: 395
description: Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days Emma's husband, Jacob, is forced to disappear underground, leaving her imprisoned within the city's decrepit, moldering Jewish ghetto. But then, in the dead of night, the resistance smuggles her out. Taken to Krakow to live with Jacob's Catholic aunt, Krysia, Emma takes on a new identity as Anna Lipowski, a gentile. Emma's already precarious situation is complicated by her introduction to Kommandant Richwalder, a high-ranking Nazi official who hires her to work as his assistant. Urged by the resistance to use her position to access details of the Nazi occupation, Emma must compromise her safety—and her marriage vows—in order to help Jacob's cause. As the atrocities of war intensify, so does Emma's relationship with the Kommandant, building to a climax that will risk not only her double life, but also the lives of those she loves.
language: English
title: The Kommandant's Girl
titlecomplete: The Kommandant's Girl (The Kommandant's Girl, #1)
characters: Krysia Smok, Jacob Bau, Marta Nederman, Marek., Marcin Smok, Helga., Emma Bau, Georg Richwalder, Alek Landesberg, Chaim & Reisa Gershmann, Malgorzata Turnau, Colonel Diedrichson, Lukasz Izakowicz
genres: Historical, World War II, Adult, Holocaust, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Poland, Romance
ratings_count: 27630
places: Krakow
series: The Kommandant's Girl 
publisher: MIRA