Summary Of I Will Plant You A Lilac Tree

Over my Thanksgiving break I read the book called, “I will plant you a lilac tree.” This book is about a teenage girl named Hannelore. Hannelore didn't live with her parents or other siblings. Her mother sent her a letter in the mail stating, "Yesterday the postman brought a letter and a small box postmarked "Buchenwald." The letter said the following: "Martin Wolff died of unknown causes on March 14, 1942. Urn contains his ashes." Hannelore, your papa is dead." Hannelore was extremely upset that Gestapo killed her father. Later on Hannelore's mother and two brothers got a letter stating that they were going to be deported into a concentration camp. Her mother wrote her a letter telling her this. She decided that she was going to write a letter to Gestapo
These jobs were backbreaking. All of the prisoners were fead with ration cards and could often only eat a small slice of bread. Hannelore met a man named Dick. Dick was a POW and worked in the kitchen. They instantly fell in love! Dick and Hannelore met in a shed behind the kitchen where he brought her extra food to eat. He also bought her new clothes and warm boots to wear. Hannelore experienced so much at the concentration camps and always had that doubt in her mind that she was going to die anyday. She often thought she would be tricked into going into the shower but instead of water coming down it would be gas. Hannelore and her friends were always very scared when they had to take a shower, and often found themselves crying and hugging each other thinking it was their last few minutes to live. I loved this book! It was very interesting to me. It was definitely a book that I couldn't put down. When she told about her experiences about making new friends and also losing her family I found this very interesting and heartbreaking to know the pain she must have been going through. A weak point in this book was when Hannelore couldn't find