Eleven-year-old Irish Catholic Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch form a wonderful, if unlikely, friendship in Brooklyn in 1947, but the actions of a group of anti-Semitic thugs soon have them trapped in a spiral of hate and hoping for a miracle.
During a search for spies in his Viennese neighborhood, thirteen-year-old Con, an American living overseas with his mother, gains a new awareness of antisemitism and the Holocaust.
When Lisa Barnes works on her high school science project with Harvey Burns, she begins receiving anti-semitic notes in the mail which seem intent on breaking up their friendship.
Presents a collection of forty-two illustrations by a survivor of Auschwitz that provides the only visual images ever captured of a Nazi death camp during its operation.
Describes how Henry Ford promoted his anti-Semitic views in "The Dearborn Independent" and other publications and examines the response of the Jewish community in America as well as Ford's impact on the spread of anti-Semitism in Europe before World War II.
