Saving Amelie
By: Cathy Gohlke
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9781414383224
Subjects: Family secrets; Anti-Nazi movement; World War, 1939-1945; Medical ethics; Children; Fiction
Description: Increasingly wary of her father's genetic research, Rachel Kramer has determined that this trip with him to Germany in 1939 will be her last. But a cryptic letter from an estranged friend, begging Rachel for help, changes everything. Married to SS officer Gerhardt Schlick, Kristine sees the dark tides turning and fears her husband views their daughter, Amelie, deaf since birth, as a blight on his Aryan bloodline. When Rachel uncovers shocking secrets about her own history, she turns to American journalist Jason Young, who connects her to the resistance and to controversial theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.