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Kudos to Jennifer Coburn, the Author of “The Girls of the Glimmer Factory” for writing such a Powerful, Intense, Informative and Captivating Historical Novel of the Holocaust. The Genres for this well-written novel are Historical Fiction, Historical World War Two Fiction, Holocaust, and Women’s Historical Fiction. Jennifer Coburn discusses how propoganda is used as a weapon of war. The author discusses the importance of friends, family, community, loyalty, courage, strength, hope and love. The setting for the novel is a Nazi “Show Camp” Theresienstadt. The author vividly describes the traumatic setting, and the dramatic characters. The author describes one of the characters, Hilde, as a true believer in the Third Reich, and contrasts her to Hannah, who is a Jewish prisoner at Theresienstadt. Once upon a time, Hannah and Hilde were school mates and friends. Hilde is an ambitious and aspires to be a director of films. She is in charge of making a film that is supposed to show how wonderful the Jewish people are treated in Theresienstadt. When Hilde sees Hannah, she makes her an assistant. Hilde truly believes that what she is filming is the truth, and wants it to be successful at all costs. Hannah is in survival mode, and trying to help the other prisoners. I highly recommend this memorable, thought-provoking and heartfelt novel to others. This is intriguing and is educational, and hopefully will be a reminder never to forget!
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