No Woman's Land:
a Holocaust novel
By Ellie Midwood
This novel is based
on the inspiring and moving love story of Ilse Stein, a German Jew, and Willy
Schultz, a Luftwaffe Captain in the Minsk ghetto, who risked his life to save
the one he loved the most.
When the last of the Jews’ rights are stripped in 1941,
Ilse’s family is deported to a Minsk ghetto. Confined to a Sonderghetto and
unable to speak the locals’ language, Ilse struggles to support the surviving
members of her family. Befriended by a local underground member Rivka, Ilse
partakes in small acts of resistance and sabotage to help her fellow Jews
escape to the partisans.
A few months later, after losing almost his entire brigade of
workers to one of the bloodiest massacres conducted by the SS, a local
administrative officer Willy Schultz summons the survivors to form a new
brigade. Ilse’s good looks immediately catch his eye, and he makes her a leader
of the new unit and later, an office worker. Soon, an unlikely romance blossoms
amid death and gore, moving a Nazi officer to go to great risks to protect not
only Ilse but as many others as possible and allowing a Jewish girl to open her
heart to the former enemy. Knowing that the ghetto would soon be liquidated,
Willy Schultz swears to save Ilse, even if the cost would be his own life.
“We
live together, or we die together,” - an ultimate
oath of love in the most harrowing setting.
Dark, haunting, but full of hope, “No Woman’s Land” is a
testament to the love that is stronger than fear and death itself.
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Ellie Midwood
Ellie Midwood is an award-winning, best-selling historical fiction writer. She's a health-obsessed yoga enthusiast, a neat freak, an adventurer, Nazi Germany history expert, polyglot, philosopher, a proud Jew, and a doggie mama.
Ellie lives in New York with her fiancé and their Chihuahua named Shark Bait.
Awards:
Readers' Favorite - winner in the Historical fiction category (2016) - "The Girl from Berlin: Standartenführer's Wife"
Readers' Favorite - winner in the Historical fiction category (2016) - "The Austrian"(honorable mention)
New Apple - 2016 Award for Excellence in Independent Publishing - "The Austrian"(official selection)
Readers' Favorite - winner in the Historical fiction category (2017) - "Emilia"
Readers' Favorite - winner in the Historical fiction category (2018) - "A Motherland's Daughter, A Fatherland's Son"
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