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Hidden in Her Shadow: A Heart-Wrenching Holocaust and WW2 Historical Fiction Novel of a Jewish Mother's Fight for Family Survival
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General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 13 2026
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
She saved two of her children by fleeing Nazi Germany. To save the others, she would have to go back.
Germany, 1929. Sixteen-year-old Marsha Gottgold lives in a world of beauty, wealth, music, and privilege. The daughter of a prosperous Jewish family in Munich, she believes her future is already written, until she meets Moishe, a poor Jewish gardener whose humor, strength, and quiet tenderness change the course of her life.
Their love defies class, expectation, and the comfortable world Marsha has always known. Together, they marry, build a family, and try to believe that Germany will remain their home.
But by 1933, everything has changed.
As Hitler rises to power and hatred against the Jews spreads through the streets, Marsha and Moishe watch the country they once trusted turn against them. Their home, their fortune, their friendships, and their sense of safety begin to collapse under the growing shadow of Nazi persecution.
Then comes the impossible choice no parent should ever have to make.
To save their children, Marsha flees to Palestine with their daughters, while Moishe stays behind in Germany with their sons, still hoping the danger will pass. For a while, letters cross the distance between them, fragile proof that the family is still alive, still waiting, still dreaming of reunion.
Then the letters stop.
Haunted by fear and driven by a mother's love, Marsha makes the dangerous decision to return to Nazi Germany and search for her missing husband and sons. In a world of informers, soldiers, hiding places, false papers, and unbearable loss, she will risk everything she has left for one chance to hold her family again.
Hidden in Her Shadow is an unforgettable, heart-wrenching World War II historical fiction novel of love, loss, courage, and family survival, perfect for readers who are moved by Holocaust fiction, Jewish family sagas, and powerful stories of mothers who will risk everything for their children.
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