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For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has declined to speak about her life in Germany during World-War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mom were separated by an American soldier and visited reside with him in Minnesota. Trudy's single proof of the past is definitely an outdated picture: a household picture featuring Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi official, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald.Driven from the remorse of her heritage, Trudy, now a teacher of German history, starts examining the past and finally unearths the remarkable and tragic reality of her mother's life.Combining a separate, doomed love story, a brilliant evocation of life throughout the battle, and a touching mother/child crisis, People Who Save Us is just a serious exploration of what we experience to survive and the legacy of pity.