Overview

In the letters and in Martin Doerry's superb commentary, we see the deterioration of a whole country through the eyes of an ordinary family driven asunder by pressure from the Nazi regime. We see Lilli's initial optimism and love of her husband begin to crack. We see her trying to support and run the family home from Breitenau camp, but relying totally on her twelve-year-old daughter, Ilse. And perhaps most moving of all, we see Ilse's heroic attempts to meet her mother, even though it means going into the labour camp itself, and Lilli's courage in the face of her inevitable end.

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'As heart-breaking, in its own way, as the diary of Anne Frank' Sunday Telegraph 'Martin Doerry has edited the letters with delicacy and skill ... It will be a hard-hearted reader who can finish this book dry-eyed' Sunday Times 'Though harrowing, her letters offer a moving portrait of resilience in the face of evil, and speak of a time when Germany had departed from the community of civilised human beings ... (it) is an essential document' Independent 'One of the fascinations of this remarkable, and heartbreaking, book is its presentation of history as it is authentically lived ... The intimacies and domesticities recorded in the book are enormously moving' Daily Telegraph

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Martin Doerry was born in 1955. He studied German literature and History in Tubingen and Zurich, and completed his PhD in Modern History. He has worked at Der Spiegel since 1987 and was appointed Deputy Editor-In-Chief in 1998.

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