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My Wounded Heart by Martin Doerry (Hardcover, 2004)

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Author:Doerry, Martin. We see Lilli's initial optimism and love of her husband begin to crack. My Wounded Heart. The Life of Lilli Jahn 1900-1944. Title:My Wounded Heart. Year Published:2004. A new book will be sold once but their stories can be enjoyed by more than one owner.

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This is the story of a gifted Jewish doctor, the mother of five, who, after separation from her Aryan husband, is arrested on an absurd charge and sent to a corrective labour camp in 1942. Lilli was a prolific letter writer and miraculously almost all her letters to her children and friends, together with a huge number of their letters to her (smuggled out of the camp at Breitenau before she was sent to Auschwitz), survived World War II and only came to light on the death of her son in 1998. In the letters and in Martin Doerry's commentary, we see the deterioration of a whole country through the eyes of an ordinary family driven asunder by pressure from the Nazi regime. We see Lilli's initial optimism and love for her husband begin to crack. We see her trying to support and run the family from Breitenau camp, but relying totally on her 12 year-old daughter, Ilse, and we see the difficulties for the children of living with Ernst's mistress, now his wife, after a bombing raid destroys the family home. Prehaps most of all we see Ilse's heroic attempts to meet her mother, even though it means going into the labour camp itself, and Lilli's courage in the face of her inevitable end.