This is an incredible story that will stay with me for a long time. As in “All the Light We Cannot See’ the victims always hoped it would be different in France and for a while it was, but not for long. Whether the circus can protect them in France is doubtful. The bond between Noa and Astrid, a trapeze artist is so engrossing and the story so vivid, you will never forget them and the life they lived. Her escape leads her to a German traveling circus. She instinctively takes one of the babies and runs away. One day she discovers a horrible scene, a boxcar filled with Jewish infants on their way to a concentration camp. Sixteen year old Noa, abandoned by her family because she’s has become pregnant by a Nazi solder and then forced to give up her baby is now living in a train station. Pam Jenoff’s research into these atrocities of WWII is the core of her new book, The Orphan’s Tale.
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