Hiding in Plain Sight
By Betty Lauer
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It is 1938. Berta Weissberger,twelve years old, lives in Hindenburg, Germany, with her mother and older sister. Her father has already left for America, and the family is awaiting the arrival of thei rAmerican visas. These hopes and plans are destroyed at the end of October 1938, however, when Jews are rounded up, loaded onto trucks, and driven to the Polish border. They are forced to cross a river into Poland and ordered, "Keep wlaking and do not turn back. Anyone attempting to turn back will be shot." So begins Bertel's six-year terrifying odyssey in Nazi-occupied Poland. While living a life of constant vigilance an fear. Bertel grows inot womanhood. Again and again, Providence steps in and saves her, guiding her to the righ tperson or place.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Meh. This was not the best memoir. I mean, it wasn't terrible, but it was both too detailed and not detailed enough. The postwar section with Krysia/Betty looking for surviving family members and trying to get out of the country covered over 150 pages and really dragged. You don't often hear a lot of detail about Holocaust survivors in postwar Europe and their attempts to emigrate, so I guess it was valuable for that reason, but it could have been cut by half or even two-thirds.I really wish Betty had provided more information about what she was feeling during all the events she describes. For instance, after the death of Betty's sister, their mother was in such despair that she decided to commit suicide, and Betty agreed to die with her. (Obviously, things didn't go as planned.) What was she thinking at that moment, how did she feel? It could have been a very poignant and haunting chapter; it comes off very dry instead. And when she married Stefan, was it just for convenience/protection and then love came later, or did she love him already? Also, none of the dialogue sounds real -- she's attempting to tell too much by the dialogue and it comes off sounding like...well...like a book. Real people don't talk that way.I do not believe this memoir is worth the time it took to read 550+ pages of small print. Not when there are so many other, better books out there.