About the Book

A young girl, kidnapped on the eve of World War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and―decades later―a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma.
1940. Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race. But when she is reassigned to work as a museum curator in Nuremberg, then forced to marry an SS officer and adopt a young girl, Hanna begins to see behind the Nazi facade. A prayer labyrinth becomes a storehouse for Hanna’s secrets, but as she comes to love Lilly as her own daughter, she fears that what she’s hiding―and what she begins to uncover―could put them both in mortal danger.

Eighty years later, Ember Ellis is a Holocaust researcher intent on confronting hatred toward the Jewish people and other minorities. She reconnects with a former teacher on Martha’s Vineyard after she learns that Mrs. Kiehl’s mother once worked with the Nazi Ahnenerbe. And yet, Mrs. Kiehl describes her mother as “a friend to the Jewish people.” Wondering how both could be true, Ember helps Mrs. Kiehl regain her fractured childhood memories of World War II while at the same time confronting the heartache of her own secret past―and the person who wants to silence Ember forever.

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In My Opinion

Melanie Dobson’s latest story is a testament to the impact of history through the ages. Through the lives of two women, The Curator’s Daughter left an impact because of the connections between the Germany of World War II and the world we live in today.

In addition to the journeys both Hannah and Ember take throughout the book, readers are given an education on the lengths the Nazis went to when they came across fine arts as well as the kidnapping of children from Poland and other countries.

This is a story of survival, hope of a better world, forgiveness, and so much more. After I read the final word and closed the cover, this book’s theme has stuck with me.

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