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adorará Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se gostará deste livro. Loved this book! This is a great, easy to read story of a girl who finds an unexpected and inventive way to escape Nazi persecution. Her situation is tenuous and the story carries the suspense throughout. Highly recommended!” (  ) pbarber42 | Sep 3, 2009 |  What a surprising book! Firstly, because it's by the author of the kids' Clementine series, which I love. Secondly, because she writes about an aspect of the Holocaust I was unaware of - the Lebensborn. These were German maternity homes for unwed mothers intended to increase the population of "The Master Race." The novel tells the story of Cyrla, a half-Jewish gilr living with relatives in Holland, who decides to take the place of her dead cousin Anneke in the Lebensborn she was going to be sent to. A fasinating read about a young girl's choices in extremely difficult times. (  ) Persephonesdaughter | Aug 11, 2009 | I hesitate to recommend this book because it has more sexual content than I would usually tolerate. However, I really liked this story. Cyrla tells this story entire from her point of view. She is a Jewish girl in the Netherlands during World War II who through some unusual circumstances finds herself in the Nazi Lebensborn program. She is thought to be an "aryan" girl expecting the child of a German soldier. Cyrla is a character I still think about. The horrible choices people were forced to make at that time of history put Cyrla and others in this book in situations that bring out their inner character no other setting could. The resoluation of the story was unexpected but settling. Well written. (  )1  shaunnas | Feb 20, 2009 | Hiding out from the Nazis with her Dutch relatives, Cyrla, a half-Jewish girl, is confronted by a terrifying choice between certain discovery in her cousin's home and taking her pregnant cousin Anneke's place in the Lebensborn, a maternity home for Aryangirls. (  ) vsandham | Feb 20, 2009 | Anytime I can read about something new in well-written historical fiction, I'm all for it! The author of this adult novel taught me something and had me googling before I had even finished the book. It's a tale of the Lebensborn, a home for girls who were breeding good German stock to carry on the work of the Fuhrer. Wow. Cyrla is 1/2 Jewish and her father sends her to the Netherlands before Hitler starts raising too much heck. But the war catches up with her in the Netherlands. No one knows she is 1/2 Jewish (maybe) but she can't keep up appearances with her Jewish boyfriend anymore. Her cousin and best friend wants to marry a German soldier who has gotten her pregnant, but things don't usually work out during wartime. Then enters the Lebensborn. These homes were full of girls who were raped or freely having German babies. Some were even like factories, churning out the Aryan race for Hitler. Wow. That's really about all I can say. The novel reads quickly and easily, but things were wrapped up a little cheesily for me at the end. ( ) sarahthelibrarian | Jan 1, 2009 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Cyrla's neighbors have begun to whisper. Her cousin, Anneke, is pregnant and has passed the rigorous exams for admission to the Lebensborn, a maternity home for girls carrying German babies. But Anneke's soldier has disappeared, and Lebensborn babies are only ever released to their father's custody-- or taken away.
A note is left under the mat. Someone knows that Cyrla, sent from Poland years before for safekeeping with her Dutch relatives, is Jewish. The Nazis are imposing more and more restrictions; she won't be safe there for long.
And then in the space of an afternoon, life falls apart. Cyrla must choose between certain discovery in her cousin's home and taking Anneke's place in the Lebensborn--Cyrla and Anneke are nearly identical. If she takes refuge in the enemy's lair, can Cyrla fool the doctors, nurses, guards, and other mothers-to-be? Can she escape before they discover she is not who she claims?
Mining a lost piece of history, Sara Young takes us deep into the lives of women living in the worst of times. Part love story and part elegy for the terrible choices we must often make to survive, MY ENEMY'S CRADLE keens for what we lose in war and sings for the hope we sometimes find.
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