Secrets Of Nonna Bannister

The Secrets of Nonna Bannister was a great book that showed the horrors of the Holocaust in a new way. The depiction of what she went through was absolutely astonishing. She had to live through many of her family members being killed throughout the holocaust. The entire story is magnificent. She started as a little girl in Ukraine. The Germans occupied the country and took her mother along with her. They packed them in a tight car and some could barely breath. They stopped a few times and on the second stop they were taking off and a Jewish woman threw her baby to Nonna’s mother and said take care of her. But on the thirds stop the guards took the baby and killed him over his knee. When they got to the labor camp they were forced to
do many deeds. They were transferred many times and the last time her mother was taken from her at a hospital. She died a month later. She was a nurse for most of the time and treated much better than the Jewish people. They gave her food every day. She was transferred three different times and the only reason her mother was taken is because of what happened with the baby. She was very strong through her life in the camp and her surviving family members met with her after the war. She began to give speeches after the experience as well. Nonna went through many things and this story gave great descriptions for what happened. The best one was for after the war and she was the only member of her family from that camp to survive. She wrote in her diary throughout the experience and that is how they made the book. I give this a four out five star and highly suggest you read it. This is just one of many stories that describes the horrible experience known as the Holocaust.