The author chronicles her experiences in Berlin, a concentration camp, and during her escape to Switzerland, as well as presenting firsthand accounts of the Holocaust by Jews from Poland, Holland, Belgium, France, Lithuania, the Ukraine, and Hungary
The author Gerda Haas, her story of being a baby nurse during WW11 in the concentration camp Thereisenstadt, her surprising survival and redemption to Switzerland, and then being reunited with her father in the United States. She went on to marry, another German physician survivor, have 4 children and live in Maine. She went on to create the Human Rights Center in Augusta, Maine and at this writing she is 97 years old with 11 grandchildren. Amazing story of a young German girl, who survived a concentration camp, ( never saw her mother and sister again) and rebuilt a fruitful, purposeful life in Maine.