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# 4.5/5 Star Rating 5-Book Collection Large Print Editions The Plum Tree: An Emotional and Heartbreaking Novel of WW2 Germany and the Holocaust

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## Key Features

- • **Award-Winning Author:** From Ellen Marie Wiseman, a bestselling author with thousands of glowing reviews.
- • **Multi-Book Value Pack:** Get the full 5-book collection to fully immerse yourself in this unforgettable saga.
- • **Accessible Large Print:** Enjoy a comfortable reading experience with large print editions designed for clarity.
- • **Immersive WWII Narrative:** Dive deep into the emotional and gripping world of WWII Germany and the Holocaust.
- • **Critically Acclaimed & Popular:** Ranked top 150 in Jewish Historical Fiction with a 4.5-star average from 8,491 readers.

## Overview

The Plum Tree is a 5-book large print collection by bestselling author Ellen Marie Wiseman, offering a heart-wrenching and immersive novel set in WWII Germany and the Holocaust. With a 4.5-star rating from over 8,400 readers, this critically acclaimed series blends historical insight with compelling storytelling, making it a must-have for fans of Jewish historical fiction and family sagas.

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Review: Great Insight Into Concentration Camps - I have read many of Ellen Marie Wiseman’s novels. She is a prolific author and able to draw the reader right into her novels. It’s almost impossible to quit reading once one begins. The Plumb tree, kept me guessing all the way through. I love reading novels in which I cannot guess the ending. This novel is heartbreaking at certain points and I found myself questioning how such evil could have existed? But as always love light, and good always wins; no matter the circumstance. I highly recommend reading any of her novels. I’m currently reading, “Coal River.” It is another great novel about mining in Pennsylvania. Highly recommend this author.
Review: They Survived! - I love books set during WWII, and THE PLUM TREE is no exception. The lives of Christine, her family, her neighborhood, and the fate of her Jewish boy friend and his family drive the narrative. All the tension comes from externals, however, because the characters are not quite three-dimensional. No one has any flaws. And a lot OF what happens is hard to believe. Christine risks her life to meet Isaac, her Jewish boy friend, in a wine cellar even though they've just started to get to know one another when the Nazis impose Jewish restrictions. The reader learns in retrospect that Christine has pined for Isaac for a long time, but this ought to be shown in present action to make the risks she takes understandable. The villains are generic as well. The overweight SS officer, who Christine keeps running into, is right out of central casting as well as her girl friend's sadistic boy friend, who's a guard at Dachau. This character really needs more development because he figures into the plot, especially once the Allies arrive. The reader never finds out who betrayed Isaac's hiding place. And the last section in which Isaac and Christine help the American military sort out the SS from the regular German soldiers feels rushed, yet is the most unique part of this story. If ever a war needed war crimes tribunals, this one did. And the human need for revenge drifts into more complicated territory than the simplistic evil versus good theme that this book holds fast to most of the way. (I'm reminded here of the disturbing THE NIGHT PORTER, as well as Fassbinder movies.) Still I give THE PLUM TREE 4 stars. The descriptions of the lovely countryside, the daily life of an average German family in extreme circumstances, the yin and yang of village life--these are well-written and a pleasure to read.

## Features

- 5-Book Collection
- Large Print Editions

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,445,691 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #110 in Jewish Historical Fiction #276 in Jewish Literature & Fiction #308 in Family Saga Fiction |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,491 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Insight Into Concentration Camps
*by L***D on November 14, 2025*

I have read many of Ellen Marie Wiseman’s novels. She is a prolific author and able to draw the reader right into her novels. It’s almost impossible to quit reading once one begins. The Plumb tree, kept me guessing all the way through. I love reading novels in which I cannot guess the ending. This novel is heartbreaking at certain points and I found myself questioning how such evil could have existed? But as always love light, and good always wins; no matter the circumstance. I highly recommend reading any of her novels. I’m currently reading, “Coal River.” It is another great novel about mining in Pennsylvania. Highly recommend this author.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ They Survived!
*by E***L on July 8, 2013*

I love books set during WWII, and THE PLUM TREE is no exception. The lives of Christine, her family, her neighborhood, and the fate of her Jewish boy friend and his family drive the narrative. All the tension comes from externals, however, because the characters are not quite three-dimensional. No one has any flaws. And a lot OF what happens is hard to believe. Christine risks her life to meet Isaac, her Jewish boy friend, in a wine cellar even though they've just started to get to know one another when the Nazis impose Jewish restrictions. The reader learns in retrospect that Christine has pined for Isaac for a long time, but this ought to be shown in present action to make the risks she takes understandable. The villains are generic as well. The overweight SS officer, who Christine keeps running into, is right out of central casting as well as her girl friend's sadistic boy friend, who's a guard at Dachau. This character really needs more development because he figures into the plot, especially once the Allies arrive. The reader never finds out who betrayed Isaac's hiding place. And the last section in which Isaac and Christine help the American military sort out the SS from the regular German soldiers feels rushed, yet is the most unique part of this story. If ever a war needed war crimes tribunals, this one did. And the human need for revenge drifts into more complicated territory than the simplistic evil versus good theme that this book holds fast to most of the way. (I'm reminded here of the disturbing THE NIGHT PORTER, as well as Fassbinder movies.) Still I give THE PLUM TREE 4 stars. The descriptions of the lovely countryside, the daily life of an average German family in extreme circumstances, the yin and yang of village life--these are well-written and a pleasure to read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful story
*by C***Y on December 27, 2012*

"Christine, I want you to understand something. War makes perpetrators of some, criminals of others, and victims of everyone. Not all of the soldiers on the front are fighting for Hitler and his ideals. Just because a soldier is in the battle, doesn't mean that he believes in the war." The Plum Tree is a story of a young girl (Christine) and her family during WWII and the Nazi occupation of Germany. Beyond that, it is a tale of love and survival, of loss and strength, and a tale of hope. It is historical fiction, woven with a tale of romance between a young German girl and a young German Jew at the height of the terror in Nazi-occupied Germany. We have all learned about WWII, Nazi Germany, the concentration camps, and the horrors that befell Jews in Eastern Europe during Hitler's reign; however, this book brought this rich and terrifying history to life through the eyes of a young German girl and her family in ways that I had not experienced before. This is the first book that I have read from a German viewpoint rather than that of a concentration-camp or German Jew's perspective. And the story was chilling. Christine is a sympathetic protagonist who was easy to identify with. When the book opens, she is only 17 and is in love with a young Jewish boy from a well-to-do family. Predictably (although I don't mean this as a slight), their world changes when the war begins and Jewish families are targeted by Hitler and his men. We follow Christine through the changes in her hometown (including air raids, bombings, rationing of food, destruction, Jewish families being whisked away in the night to work campus, street shootings, and unspeakable violence). We often are not sure what has come of Christine's father (who was sent off to fight in the army) or Isaac, Christine's love who is likely sent away for being Jewish. Ellen Marie Wiseman writes this novel from personal experience- as a first generation German-American, Ellen Marie spent much of her life between Germany and America, and heard many tales from family members who lived during this time and experienced these unspeakable horrors. This gives the novel a freshness and a truthfulness that is easy to see. To say you loved this book feels wrong- it is haunting and heartbreaking and horrific- but it is also a lovely tale of young love and the heroism and spirit of a young German girl living in an unspeakably cruel world in a horrible period in Germany's history. That being said, this book is certainly a new favorite of mine and will be cherished forever. Although I thought I knew a great deal about this time period, WWII and Nazi-Occupied Germany, I was wrong. The perspective and the details from this story will undoubtedly stay with me forever.

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