With You There Is Light: Based on the True Story about Sophie Scholl and Fritz Hartnagel - Paperback

by Alexandra Lehmann (Author)

As a founding member of the White Rose student resistance in Munich during World War II, Sophie Scholl helped write, produce and distribute thousands of anti-Nazi leaflets. Her boyfriend, Captain Fritz Hartnagel, wrote to Sophie accounts of SS and German army atrocities while fighting on both fronts. Caught on opposite sides of war, both Fritz and Sophie were changed by their correspondence. With Fritz's actual letters translated here into English for the first time, their relationship demonstrates the moral complexity of living in a totalitarian society and is ultimately a love story.

Author Biography

Author and historian Alexandra Lehmann works as a U.S. representative of the University of Munich's White Rose Foundation. She was nominated by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) as 2017 "Author of the Year." (Winner announced in April). After receiving her Masters of Fine Art from Sarah Lawrence College, and fluent in German, Alexandra began archival research in Munich for "With You There Is Light." She won a fellowship to the Wesleyan Writers' Conference and has guest lectured on German Resistance history at Shames Jewish Community Center (JCC on the Hudson), St. Paul's German Church in New York City, New Brunswick Theological Seminary, Mt. Holyoke/ Sarah Lawrence Colleges, Fairfield/Western Connecticut State Universities, and in libraries and bookstores across New York and Connecticut. The Holocaust Remembrance Center/Yad Vashem in Jerusalem requested a copy of her graduate thesis comparing Anne Frank and Sophie Scholl for their research library. She works as a writer and lives in Connecticut.