In her luminous and engrossing memoir, Natalie B.
Hess takes us from a sheltered childhood in a small town in Poland into the horrors of the Holocaust.
When her parents are rounded up and perish in the Treblinka concentration camp, a Gentile family temporarily hides six-year-old Natalia.
Later, protected by a family friend, she is imprisoned in her city's ghetto, before she is sent to a forced-labor camp, and finally, Ravensbr ck Concentration Camp, from which, at nine, she is libera.