Ruth Rosenstock-Michel, born in 1928 in Konigsberg, East Prussia on the Baltic Sea, belongs to that group of people whom the Nazis relentlessly hunted and persecuted. Her dramatic story of survival is not an account of the horrors in concentration camps, but of the struggles of a family fleeing forward to freedom and peace. Her tale will stir the heart of every reader. She wrote this book in order to give a voice to the tortured and murdered Jews and hopes that voice will be heard through this translation. The story begins when Ruth is six and her Jewish father moves her Christian mother,...