As a child, the author and her family were exiled to Siberia for being capitalists, thus inadvertently escaping the Nazis. After World War II, she began collecting the true stories of those who lived and died during the horror of the Holocaust: of Jews in Vilna, in the US, and in Israel. This title presents a collection of 20 true stories.

This is a collection of 20 haunting true stories, each revealing the struggle for Jewish identity and the solace gained through faith. As a child, Esther Hautzig and her family were exiled to Siberia for being capitalists, thus inadvertently escaping the Nazis. After World War II, Hautzig began collecting the true stories of those who lived and died during the horror of the Holocaust: of Jews in Vilna, in the United States, and in Israel.