![]() David works trying to help displaced persons build new lives, while hiding his more radical nighttime activities from his sister. Millie, works in the office responsible for rooting out the most dedicated Nazis from publishing she is consumed with rage at her former country and its citizens, though she is finding it more difficult to hate in proximity. Now they are both back in their former hometown, haunted by ghosts and hoping against hope to find their family. David enlists in the army and is eventually posted to the top-secret Camp Ritchie in Maryland, which trains German-speaking men for intelligence work. Millie attends Bryn Mawr on a special scholarship for non-Aryan German girls and graduates to a magazine job in Philadelphia. Margot Livesey, New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy Millie (Meike) Mosbach and her brother David, manage to escape to the States just before Kristallnacht, leaving their parents and little sister in Berlin. ![]() Book Synopsis From the author of Paris Never Leaves You, Ellen Feldmans The Living and the Lost is a gripping story of a young German Jewish woman who returns to Allied Occupied Berlin from America to face the past and unexpected future A deeply satisfying and truly adult novel. ![]()
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