Born in Amsterdam in 1935, Suzanne Mehler Whiteley saw ravages of war through a child'seyes. Her memoir, written in the voice of a young girl, describes the years before the invasion of Holland, her experiences during the German occupation, her time spent in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and her childhood afterward in Europe and then the United States. A holocaust survivor who is now trained as a therapist, the author tells not only what it was like to witness the horrors of Bergen-Belsen but also how a child set about resuming the business of growing up after. She shares the sense of...