Four Girls From Berlin, Marianne Meyerhoff
Four Girls From Berlin, Marianne Meyerhoff
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Four Girls From Berlin
A True Story of a Friendship That Defied the Holocaust

Author: Marianne Meyerhoff

Narrator: Jilly Bond

Unabridged: 8 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/25/2020

Synopsis

A pair of silver Regency candlesticks. Pieces of well-worn family jewelry. More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographs.Lotte Meyerhoff's best friends risked their lives in Nazi Germany to safeguard these and other treasured heirlooms and mementos from her family and return them to her after the war. The Holocaust had left Lotte the lone survivor of her family, and these precious objects gave her back a crucial piece of her past. Four Girls from Berlin vividly recreates that past and tells the story of Lotte and her courageous non-Jewish friends Ilonka, Erica, and Ursula as they lived under the shadow of Hitler in Berlin.Written by Lotte's daughter, Marianne, this powerful memoir celebrates the unseverable bonds of friendship and a rich family legacy the Holocaust could not destroy.

About Marianne Meyerhoff

Marianne Meyerhoff is a writer, director, and producer. As one of the interviewers working for Stephen Spielberg on his oral-history project Survivors of the Shoah, her interest in her own family history ignited. After diving into her late mother's experiences, she compiled them into her first book, Four Girls from Berlin.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bree

Long-winded without any real point. I thought this would be about a group of girls who survived the Holocaust, and it was - but it wasn't. It was such a small part of the story, the rest was about the daughter and how she felt, and the friends she made by meeting her mother's friends from when she l......more

Goodreads review by Ann

Very interesting and enlightening true story of four girls (three Christian and one Jewish) who met in the pre-WW2 era. The story is unraveled by the daughter of the Jewish woman who escaped Nazi Germany. Marianne has heard of her mother's friends and marveled at the treasure of family memorabilia t......more

Goodreads review by Holly

Much like Corrie Ten Boom's "The Hiding Place," Marianne Mayerhoff's true account of her search for her German-Jewish identity tells a very personal story of the Holocaust. What makes Mayerhoff's account so compelling is that there is no dogma or principle bonding the "Four Girls from Berlin," three......more

Goodreads review by Kami

4.5 ⭐️ "Most people are good" she said. "There are some who are not. But in this world, Liebchen, few among us are at all times the one or the other. Mehr als das gibst uns nicht zu wissen. More than this we are not given to know."......more

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