This is another heartwrending story of loss and suffering by Heather Morris following her book The Tattooist of Auchswitz. What I found particularly sad was Heather's own story of growing up in a harsh, unloving family where girls were not worth much compared to male offspring. Her mother's cruelty was appalling, I'm so glad that Heather managed to get away from that environment and make a good life for herself despite her harsh upbringing. The rest of the book is very similr to Heather's previous one, stories about survivors of the death camp (where I lost numerous relatives of my own) in Poland. You need to be in a good frame of mind to tackle this and perhaps not directly related to this deathly period in European history.