In Berlin in 1941, three women must act to survive.
Hanni Kohn know she must send her daughter Lea away. She herself cannot go because of her ailing mother. But Lea must be given a chance to survive what is obviously coming at the Jews of Germany.
When Hanni goes to the rabbi to beg him to make a golem to protect Lea, she is turned away. But not before his daughter - who knows the way as well as the rabbi - hears her. Ettie agrees to do it, for enough money for her and her younger sister to get out of Germany.
This is a beautiful story of hope and strong women. Hoffman is a masterful storyteller.
Hoffman, Alice. (2019). The World That We Knew. New York: Simon & Schuster.
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