The heart-warming story of a young girl, daughter of a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother, growing up in wartime Vienna. Unable to join her father in America by the Nazi ban on Jewish emigration, Elisabeth struggles to survive, hiding her shame at having to wear the Star of David, supported only by her mother's unflagging love and fierce determination to protect her from harm.
An extraordinary story told in a simple unsentimental style that touches deeply.
Debi Alper, author and freelance editor
A young girl's account of Vienna during the war, well observed and detailed, and...