Amanda Borys's Reviews > My Mother's War: The Incredible True Story of How a Resistance Fighter Survived Three Concentration Camps

This is a hard book to review, given the contents. What I liked about it was Eva Taylor didn't try to expand upon or add drama to her mother's experiences with information from other sources. She let the horror of the names of Ravensbruck and Mauthausen do that for her. (I am not familiar with Amersfoort, but given the camps it's associated with, it must have been horrible as well). She lets the story do the talking and you can feel the fear and tension without the nitty gritty details. For example, the letter exchange with Gebele, the German prisoner in Mauthausen, lets you feel Sabine's tension and paranoia as she tried to string Gebele along for the help he is providing without making promises she can't keep. Even without her side of the letters.