Separate lives: A heartbreaking tale of two friends torn apart by hate
My problem stems from my wholehearted identification with the protagonists of this novel, the Bauer family – Jews living out the nightmare of Nazi rule in Germany in the 1930s.
THE PAINTING ‘Kristallnacht,’ painted by German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon in the early 1940s, before she was deported and murdered in Auschwitz.(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)ByAARON LEIBEL