This book was about Riva Minska Senderwitz and how she kept on having horrible nightmares about the past then veiwing her daughter Nacy she begins to have a flsh back on when she was in the ghetto and her mother was taken from her. Her youngest brother was hidden so the Nazis wouldn't get to him but then ended up dieing from a sickness. Ruth Minsky Sender has to find a way to survive in such a dreadful place but at the same time try to keep other the will and determination to live also. This book is proving to all the readers that the Holocaust was not a hoaxs because 12-14 million innocent people died including 6 million Jews and 1.5 million children. Hitler used the Jewish population as a scapegoat and blamed them for the loss of World War I and the cause of the Great Depression and the spread of communism.