The Forest of Vanishing Stars is an engrossing fictional account of a young woman who helps Jews live in the forest and escape apprehension. but what other explanation is there than there was something a little bit beyond my grasp taking place that led me here at this time to tell this story?” Harmel pondered what Rose must have felt knowing that loved ones she had just visited a few years earlier “were probably meeting an unspeakable fate.” She adds, “I don’t know if I’m a big believer that stories live in our blood. Her great-great-grandparents arrived in America in 1888, and she learned that her great-great-grandmother, Rose, returned to Poland for a visit in 1933 for a visit, six years before the Nazis invaded Poland. “It touched something so deep in me,” she relates. She conducted extensive research and had begun writing the book when her brother sent her a link to a family tree revealing that some of her family members were from an area not far from where she sets the story. Harmel can’t say exactly what led her to pen the The Forest of Vanishing Stars, although she had heard vaguely about Jewish refugees who survived World War II by hiding in the forests of Eastern Europe. After stints residing in Paris and Los Angeles, she now lives in Orlando, Florida, and is a co-founder and co-host of the weekly web show and podcast Friends & Fiction. Her writing was also published in numerous other magazines and she contributed to The Daily Buzz, a morning television show. Her favorite articles were the “Heroes Among Us” features spotlighting ordinary people doing extraordinary things. She earned a degree in journalism from the University of Florida and served for more than a decade as a reporter for People magazine, covering a wide variety of topics. She covered baseball and hockey before segueing into reporting on health and lifestyles. She began her writing career at the age of sixteen as a sportswriter in Tampa Bay, Florida. Kristin Harmel is the bestselling author of fourteen prior novels, including The Book of Lost Names and The Winemaker’s Wife. The Forest of Vanishing Stars was inspired by incredible true stories of survival against staggering, seemingly insurmountable odds. In turn, they teach her some surprising lessons about opening her heart after years of isolation.īut when she is betrayed and escapes into a German-occupied village, her past and present come together in a shocking collision that could change everything. Stunned to learn what’s happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about surviving in the forest. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazis.
After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1942 after her kidnapper dies.
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