num_pages: 395
description: "Krakow, the City of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place I had always called home."September 1939. Overnight, Jewish nineteen-year-old Emma Bau's world is turned upside down when Germany invades Poland. And after only six weeks of marriage, her husband Jacob, a member of the Resistance, is forced to flee.Escaping the ghetto, Emma assumes a new, Christian identity and finds work at Nazi headquarters. As secretary to the charismatic Kommandant Richwalder, Emma vows to use her unique position to gather intelligence for the Resistance, by any means necessary.Poignant, affecting and gripping, Kommandant's Girl is the beautifully written story of one woman's struggle to survive one of the darkest periods in human history.
language: English
title: The Kommandant's Girl
titlecomplete: The Kommandant's Girl (The Kommandant's Girl, #1)
characters: Krysia Smok, Alek Landesberg, Georg Richwalder, Helga., Chaim & Reisa Gershmann, Jacob Bau, Malgorzata Turnau, Marek., Colonel Diedrichson, Marcin Smok, Marta Nederman, Emma Bau, Lukasz Izakowicz
genres: Romance, Poland, Adult Fiction, World War II, War, Historical, Fiction, Holocaust, Historical Fiction, Adult
ratings_count: 27652
places: Krakow
series: The Kommandant's Girl 
publisher: MIRA