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Born in Germany, Hannah S. Hess came to the United States via Ecuador. She was educated in the New York City public schools, and worked as a high school English teacher, assistant principal and principal there. The mother of three children, she lives in New York with her husband, Walter, a published poet and film-maker. She is the author of The Third Side of the Desk; How Parents Can Change the Schools (Scribner, 1973) and HONEST DECEPTIONS (Caravel Books, 2013).

Margot Brenner seems to have everything a 25-year-old could want: a medical degree, a pediatric internship at a prestigious New York hospital, an attentive boyfriend. So why does she abandon her boyfriend and internship for a position at a second-rate hospital in a small German city? She knows her father and brother were victims of the holocaust when they became trapped in Germany at the onset of WWII, but she wants…specifics. Her father’s old friend, Willie Meinhof, who sheltered them as long as he could, and who suffered for that, should know. In Wolfenbuttel, where Willie and his son, also a doctor, now live, Margot finds surprising resistance from Willie. “Let the past stay buried; let sleeping dogs lie,” is his attitude. But Margot persists, until the answers she finds show that things are rarely what they seem, and that an agonizing choice in 1939 has terrible consequences in the present.

“In a Gripping Story, Hannah Hess Draws Readers into the Lies and Ugliness of War, and Its Long-Term Merciless Effects

The Holocaust is largely regarded as one of the bloodiest and most horrific genocides in human history. At the height of Nazism, Adolf Hitler ordered the murder of European Jews in German-controlled Europe. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its allies killed almost six million Jews in mass killings, brutal labor in concentration camps, and death chambers. Despite the fact that Nazism has been abolished and anti-Semitism is widely condemned, some of the scars caused by the murderous holocaust have yet to heal.

This tumultuous period in history is the subject of a gripping novel. In her book, “Honest Deceptions,” Hannah Hess will draw readers back into the ugliness of war and its long-term, merciless effects.

Margot Brenner, a 25-year-old pediatric intern at one of New York’s most prominent hospitals, leaves a bright future and a kind boyfriend behind. Her choice was prompted by a desire to learn more about her brother and father’s deaths during the Holocaust during World War II. She ended up working in a second-rate hospital in a tiny German town as a result of her decision. Willie Meinhof, her father’s old friend who tried to protect them for as long as he could and suffered, as a result, should be aware of the information she seeks. Willie, though, in Wolfenbüttel, where he and his doctor son now dwell, shows surprising opposition to Margot. But, with persistence, she finds that things are rarely as they appear and that a difficult decision taken in 1939 has devastating consequences now.

Is she getting the answers she’s looking for? Or did her inquisitiveness lead to more questions?

Join Hess as she tells a compelling story about wartime falsehoods and their devastating consequences. Hannah Hess has created riveting pictures of a Germany under Nazi domination and then of a Germany deep in the pit of self-induced amnesia about its past, twenty years later. “Honest Deceptions” is a filling story that’s full of mystery and just the right amount of tension.

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