"HANNELORE, YOUR PAPA IS DEAD." In the spring of 1942 Hannelore received a letter from Mama at her school in Berlin, Germany--Papa had been arrested and taken to a concentration camp.
But it is also a story about the surprising possibilities for hope and love in one of history\'s most brutal times..
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree is the remarkable true story of one young woman\'s nightmarish coming-of-age.
Weeks later Hannelore found herself, alone, outside the gates of Auschwitz, pushed toward the smoking crematoria.
But survival was not that simple.
Incredibly both she and Dick were added to his list.
Schindler had a plan to take eleven hundred Jews to the safety of his new factory in Czechoslovakia.
Oskar Schindler was their one hope to survive.
Despite the horrors she faced in eight labor and concentration camps, Hannelore met and fell in love with a Polish POW named Dick Hillman. "The Gestapo has notified your brothers and me that we are to be deported to the East--whatever that means." Hannelore knew: labor camps, starvation, beatings...
How could Mama and her two younger brothers bear that? She made a decision: She would go home and be deported with her family.
Soon another letter arrived.
Six weeks later he was sent home; ashes in an urn. "HANNELORE, YOUR PAPA IS DEAD." In the spring of 1942 Hannelore received a letter from Mama at her school in Berlin, Germany--Papa had been arrested and taken to a concentration camp
