
Reader comments on Lew Weinstein's Holocaust Trilogy … a love story within a factual and fast-paced historical novel … characters are so realistically portrayed … never a dull moment … an accessible way to learn this abominable history in a captivating manner ... Weinstein brings us into the rooms … you feel like you are another character in the corner … a moving, compassionate, and inspiring story of two very brave young people … part historical novel, part political thriller, part love story … … the ending is the most moving I've read in a Holocaust novel … Weinstein's gift is to weave the history into a beautiful and endearing love story … the ending brought tears to my eyes … AFTER AUSCHWITZ is a great ending to the trilogy, and ties many things together, although it can also be read first or as a standalone. An overview of Lew Weinstein's Holocaust trilogy AFTER AUSCHWITZ completes a trilogy of novels which also includes A FLOOD OF EVIL and A PROMISE KEPT. These three novels explore the unrelenting efforts of the German Catholic Berthold Becker and the Polish Jew Anna Gorska as they seek to oppose Hitler and his atrocities while also maintaining, often from afar, their intense love. A FLOOD OF EVIL covers the years 1923 to 1933 as Berthold and Anna grow up in Munich and Poland respectively, meet and fall in love, and begin their efforts to tell the world what Hitler is about to do. A PROMISE KEPT advances the story from 1934 to 1946, from Hitler’s early years of power through the war, the Holocaust, and the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. AFTER AUSCHWITZ explores the postwar lives of Berthold and Anna from 1946 to 1961, set mostly in Spandau Prison and the new State of Israel.