Rachel+T

Rachel T's Book Review
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Could you ever imagine being sent to 8 different labor camps, being raped, getting beat, and getting deadly diseases at the young age of 16? “I Will Plant you a Lilac Tree” by Laura Hillman is a remarkable true story about a 16 year old girl that looses her hole family and makes fantastic friend and falls in love. Books about the holocaust are truly amazing to me; I haven’t found one I didn’t like.

I will plant you a lilac tree is on of those books that most people fall in love with and you never want to put it down. Laura Hillman or also known as Hannelore Wolff loses all hope in her country when she first finds out her dad died in a brutal death. Shortly after she was sent to the ghetto. Life there was different and hard there. Never enough food and constantly afraid of being deported to a labor camp. For everything this young girl has gone through she still try’s to have a lot of life.

Being inspected to see if your healthy enough to stay alive is defiantly always a difficult process. Being in the inspection line, looking like death would most likely lead to death! Sneaking in other lines would become routine and if not sneak in the other lines pinching your cheeks, to make then look rosy red. This book is very descriptive and you almost feel like you were in there the camp with her. While I was readying this I would get a vivid image of how it was. When she was lying in her bed about to die of a horrible sickness going around. Hannelore would always be able get through the sickness; I would find it surprising that she never died. Hannelore was strong and always had hope of survival. Personally if I was in that position I was just give up and kill my self, how horrible that sounds I just don’t think I could handle what she went thought in her life time.

But this book isn’t all, about a lonely girl on the verge of death. It’s more about a girl who is on the verge of death, that looses all her family, make 2 great friends, and falls in love. How could anyone fall in love while being in horrible camps like Auschwitz? Honnelore does make it possible with Dick Hillman, and if you notice the writers name is Laura Hillman. Yyes dick and and Laura did get married and are still together. This Book was extremely good and I really enjoyed it. If you are a type of person that like love story’s, sad books, books with happy endings, true stories, survivor book, and holocaust books this book has it all. It keeps my interest and was a page flipping book. I really to recommend it to everyone.