In this work, the author relates her experiences in Germany from her birth in 1926 to the start of a new life in the US after the World War II. Her father was a Jew, her mother a Christian, and although their marriage shocked some relatives, such "mixed marriages" were not uncommon in the 1920s. She had a happy early childhood, but with Hitler's rise to power, persecution of Jews, including "half Jews" like her, started immediately. Her mother rejected all Nazi pressure to divorce "the Jewish," and some of the non-Jews relatives gave the family loyal support. When her parents finally...