In 1940, nineteen year old Jack Welner's boyhood city was transformed and so was Jack. Nazis took a slum area of Poland's second largest city, Lodz, and surrounded it with barbed wire. They forced 160,000 Jews inside. Jack, his brother Shmulek, sisters Henia, Fela and Hanka, mother, and nephew Sevek, were locked inside the prison-like Lodz Ghetto. Some survived; most did not. Over a hundred people died each day of starvation. Others died from disease. Jack recalls being given leaves from red beets to eat. No beets, just leaves. His mother added salt to the leaves and fried them. They would...