A little girl escapes Nazi Germany, but her parents are left behind. Join Hanna on her long journey to forgiveness.
Torn from Her Homeland ... Her Parents Murdered ... How Could She Cope? When little Hannelore (Hanna) Zack left Cologne, Germany, on a train bound for London as a seven-year-old Mädchen (young girl) on July 24, 1939, she had no way of knowing that she was part of the Kindertransport, an epic rescue effort that would save 10,000 Jewish children from Hitler's Nazi regime by granting them safe passage to England. In the coming years, Hanna would learn the painful truth: after being stripped of their business, forced from their Zuhause (home), and deported to endure six months of inhumane conditions in the Lodz Ghetto, her parents were gassed in a brutally efficient killing operation in a remote forested area near Chelmno, Poland, on May 3, 1942. Written over a four-year period beginning when Hanna was about seventy-five years old, A Garland for Ashes is both a gripping detective story recounting the heartbreaking process of discovering her family's fate and a poignant account of her journey from vengeful hatred to forgiveness and release from bitterness.
Professional Reviews
A Magnificent, Ordinary Story of Redemption
I found Hanna Miley's book deeply moving, encouraging, and beautifully told. Hers is a fascinating story, and just... rich. I still find myself reflecting on various details of her journey and all the Lord did.
Certain authors have been particularly meaningful for me over the years; I would put her story alongside Corrie ten Boom in terms of a gentle but very powerful testimony of the Lord's goodness and faithfulness. I consider Hanna's book a classic already.
I Couldn't Put it Down
I found the book riveting. From the very start I was drawn in. This was my first book about the Holocaust. I spent a few sleepless nights while reading it trying to imagine what it would be like to be that little girl and the parents that loved her.
Reads like a Detective Story
You have a survivor of the holocaust who was quite young when the madness started in Europe. She was shipped off to England and her parents had to stay Germany. She knew so little about her parents. This book takes you on her journey. First, her journey to shut out the past and then, in old age, to discover who her parents really were. What is amazing is how she gets little snippets along the way in her search so she is able to develop a composite of who they really were and, tragically, what they had to endure. The composite is incomplete of course, and she often muses about different scenarios that may have played out. She meets just the right person or reads just the right book at just the right time so that she is able to, in a sense, accompany her parents on their journey. You sense that God is superintending the entire experience. A wonderful read and, particularly as the book went on, I found it hard to break away from.
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