The "A Good Read Is Always A Great Gift" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Searching for a few gifts to add to my Christmas list.  Reading some of the memoir written by Rose Zar, a jewish survivor of World War II.  Her story is unbelievable!  

When Rose was 19 years old, the Nazis invaded her native Poland.  At the urging of her father, who told her to save herself by hiding "in the mouth of the wolf", Rose managed to go underground to get false papers and secretly change her identity to maid and nanny for of all people, a Nazi SS Colonel.  Rose chose a totally different route than many others in her ghetto in Piotrkow, Poland when the Nazis entered by grabbing her suitcase and forged passport and left her family behind.  For most of the next three years she became a Roman Catholic named Wanda Gajda.  Before the war began she had obtained a teaching certificate, but was forced to find menial jobs to survive.  She ended up working as a nanny for an SS commander as she did exactly what her father had advised, hide in plain sight in the home of a Nazi commander as "Fraulein Wanda."  

Rose Zar

Then in 1983 she wrote her memoir and once again used her father's advice by titling it "In the Mouth of the Wolf."  The book was written with Eric A. Kimmel and won the Association of Jewish Libraries' book Award and is now being used to teach about the Holocaust in schools across the United States.  Every Christmas I usually ask for a few books to read and may get a few added to my Kindle.  After reading a few reviews  about "In the mouth of the Wolf" I have placed in on the top of my list, but believe I would enjoy the hardbound book rather than on my Kindle.  It would me more of a collectible for me that way rather than just a fun read on my Kindle.  I do have a few other items on my list such as gift certificates for car washes and glass supplies for my stain glass projects, but the Rose Zar book will be a good read.  Might even be something that you, my readers, would enjoy.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.