Shadows of Berlin by David R. Gilliam

Rachel is happily married living in New York City in the 50's but in the nightmares she is still that little Jewish girl in Berlin trying to survive. Her mother was a successful artist but not really the maternal type neither was her mysterious artist model or her uncle but Rashka had an ok childhood before the war. Now she is just trying to adjust and become the perfect Jewish wife to her New York born husband Aaron. Rachel is also an artist but is so paralyzed by wartime trauma that she cannot paint. When one of her mother's paintings is found at a local pawnshop all the old memories come flooding back and Rachel must find a way through it or loose herself to the tremendous guilt she carries. Told by a few narrators in a dual timeline we follow the events before and after the war which are tied together nicely at the end. Another classic example of riveting historical WWII fiction.  4 stars