On Sale: Jan 27, 2026
Page Count: 256 pages
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
ISBN-13: 9781454961871

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Marion and Huguette Müller’s family was torn apart when the Nazis invaded France in 1940. After their mother was deported to Auschwitz, the sisters fled to the small Alpine ski resort village of Val d’Isère, where they were rescued by a brave young doctor.
Through intrepid reporting and meticulous research, Whitehouse traces the story of the Müller sisters, solving decades-old mysteries in her attempt to deliver both closure and justice. With skill and urgency, Whitehouse raises moral questions at the heart of the tragedy of the Shoah: questions about complicity, culpability, about duty to your country and your fellow man. She sifts through thousands of records and pieces together how the sisters were saved, and how so many others were lost.
It is a tale full of shocking discoveries featuring a bloodthirsty killer, secret operatives of the French resistance, forged documents, narrow escapes, and miracles.

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"[An] evocative and wrenching family history."
Wall Street Journal
"As intricate as it is arresting . . . Two Sisters is a brilliant mediation on family and trauma across generations, a much-needed critical reappraisal of the Jewish experience in France during the Holocaust, and a reminder of just how complicated and nuanced individual stories can be—even, and perhaps especially, the stories of those we feel we know so well."
James McAuley, author of The House of Fragile Things, winner of the 2022 National Jewish Book Award in History
"Brilliantly researched and beautifully written, Two Sisters tells the story of the Holocaust in France through a family caught in the maelstrom. . . . With consummate skill, Rosie Whitehouse tells a story of horror and heroism, desperation and defiance, in a remarkable chronicle of the Holocaust."
Edward Serotta, journalist, filmmaker, and author of Jews, Germany, Memory

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Rosie Whitehouse

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Rosie Whitehouse is a journalist specializing in Jewish life after the Holocaust. She writes for BBC Online, the Observer, The Independent, Tablet magazine, the Jewish Chronicle, Haaretz, and others. A graduate of the London School of Economics, she is a historical advisor at the Vienna-based Centropa, a Jewish history institute. Her first book, The People on the Beach: Journeys to Freedom after the Holocaust, was published in 2020. She lives in London.

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