My Enemy's Cradle by Sara Young6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Anneke was carrying a German soldier’s child and was expected to go to Lebensborn, but her sudden death left Cyrla with no choice but to take her place. They were skeletons.”Īnneke and Cyrla were cousins who looked very similar in every way except for one thing, Cyrla was half Jewish and hiding. ![]() I couldn’t tell one from the other I didn’t even know if they were men or women. They all looked the same, with their grey skin, their shaved skulls, their grey uniforms. You know when you read a book and you love it so much, you’re sad that it’s over? Well. Part love story and part elegy for the terrible choices we must often make to survive, My Enemy's Cradle keens for what we lose in war and sings for the hope we sometimes find. Mining a lost piece of history, Sara Young takes us deep into the lives of women living in the worst of times. If she takes refuge in the enemy's lair, can Cyrla escape before they discover she is not who she claims? She must choose between certain discovery in her cousin's home and taking Anneke's place in the Lebensborn-Cyrla and Anneke are nearly identical. ![]() Someone knows that Cyrla, sent for safekeeping with her Dutch relatives, is Jewish. But Anneke's soldier has disappeared, and Lebensborn babies are only ever released to their fathers' custody-or taken away.Īnd then in the space of an afternoon, life falls apart. Her cousin, Anneke, is pregnant and has passed the rigorous exams for admission to the Lebensborn, a maternity home for girls carrying German babies. ![]()
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