This is a memoir of a remarkable woman. Born in 1915, a Jewess in Berlin, she lived a comfortable life until a few days before her eighteenth birthday. A shocking experience convinced her that she and her family were not safe and that they must leave Germany as soon as possible. Her mother resisted but was finally convinced. Soon after Liddy's journey began.

I met Liddy and heard just a small part of the story twenty years ago and was intrigued by the instinct of one so young. Could I have understood the consequences of just one incident at seventeen? I never forgot the story but was too...