Escape in Time

 

This is a Holocaust novel written by a Jewish author and now being published in the US.  In the book Nessya is shocked to find out that her grandmother, Miri, is a Holocaust survivor.  Her grandmother has never talked about it before.  After some prodding her grandmother decides to tell her story and the book is that retelling.  The story is told through a narrative but also interspersed with what are supposed to be letters from different family members to each other.  This letters were a way of documenting events but were not actually sent.

I thoroughly enjoyed the story itself.  The family in the book was able to survive through the use of forges documents and essential hiding in plain sight.  What I did not like was the format - I found it hard to follow and know who was telling what.