I would have also liked an epilogue about the fate of the author, her mother and her brother. And the story ends abruptly with her meeting an American soldier, accidentally poisoning him, then marrying him, all in a couple of pages. She doesn't talk very much about her feelings at all, not even when the man who was helping to protect her family made her pay for it by raping her repeatedly. Her book is short, covering only about 150 pages, and it felt like she rushed through it. I do wish Gundersheimer had gone into more detail. They owe their survival partly to some helpful gentile friends, partly to chutzpah, partly to the author's resourceful older brother and mostly to sheer dumb luck. I wish people would stop calling books "diaries" when they are not.) Hers is the only Jewish family I know of that survived the Holocaust living quite openly in Germany, not even changing their names or anything. It doesn't even contain any diary entries. The author has a very unusual story to tell.
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