What I Left for You: Volume 3

By: Tolsma, Liz

Book Overview

A Family's Ties Were Broken in Poland of 1939

1939
Helena Kostyszak is an oddity--an educated female ethnic minority lecturing at a university in Krakow at the outbreak of WWII. When the Germans close the university and force Jews into the ghetto, she spirits out a friend's infant daughter and flees to her small village in the southern hills. Helena does everything in her power to protect her family, but it may not be enough. It will take all of her strength and God's intervention for both of them to survive the war and the ethnic cleansing to come.

2023
Recently unengaged social worker McKenna Muir is dealt an awful blow when a two-year-old she's been working with is murdered. It's all too much to take, so her friend suggests she dive into her family's past like she's always wanted. Putting distance between herself and her problems might help her heal, so she and her friend head on Sabbatical to Poland. But what McKenna discovers about her family shocks everyone, including one long-lost family member.

Also in the Echoes of the Past Series:
What I Would Tell You
What I Promise You

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CW7BHMC3
• ISBN13: 9798891510043
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Barbour Fiction
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

No Matter What..GOD

Where to begin? I took a week to digest this thinking I could better put my feelings into words but it still escapes me. This is one of the most poignant, powerful dual timelines I have read that weaves the past and present seamlessly together and depicts the atrocities of ethnic cleansing and the hope that God gives in the midst of the storm. This is a realistic view of WWII and has so much information on a people in the mountains of Poland called the Lemkos that I had never heard of. This author does impeccable research and brings history to life so realistically that I find it hard to put down but need a box of tissues while reading. The characters are so real that I won’t forget them as they are indelibly imprinted on my mind. I highly recommend reading and never forgetting so this never happens again to a race of people that were created by the hand of God. Top of my favorites list. I received a complimentary copy from CelebrateLit/Barbour Publishing. The honest review and opinions are my own and were not required.