Jackson, Livia Bitton

The author describes her experiences in Nazi concentration camps after she and her family were sent to Auschwitz when she was thirteen years old.

In 1945, after surviving a harrowing year in Auschwitz, fourteen-year-old Elli returns, along with her mother and brother, to the family home, now part of Slovakia, where they try to find a way to rebuild their shattered lives.

The author tells the story of how she and her mother came to New York City in 1951 to try to leave the horrors of the Holocaust behind, but found it harder than they expected to fit into this "new world.".