When Time Stopped - a Holocaust survival story with a twist

When Time Stopped
by Ariana Neumann
3/5 stars
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I wanted to love this book, I really did, but for me, it was just OK.

When time stopped is the story of a daughter living in Venezuela, who, following the death of her father, finds a box with confusing documents. 
Ariana documents her investigation and discovers he once lived under a different name, hiding in plain sight in Hitler's Germany. 

First I do want to say that every testimony and story of Holocaust survival is so important. 
However, just because it is a true story and a story of how this family survived, does not necessarily make it a great book. 
I feel like this book had a lot of potential to be a great, engrossing story, but just did not live up to it's promise for me. 
There were parts of the story that were very moving, but for me, the narrative style was a bit off-putting.  It was all told in a very third person manner, describing what she finds and discovers, and I just never really felt like I was in the middle of the story. I always felt more like an observer. 

This is an impressive story of survival and kudos to Neumann for such thorough research.