Relates how the author was torn from her happy home and sent to Birkenau by the Nazis, describing how she worked long hours and fought for survival before being set free at the end of the war and beginning a new life in America.
The true story of fifteen-year-old Elly, who, along with her mother and brother, were taken from their Romanian town to the Auschwitz-II-Birkenau concentration camp and how she alone survived.
