About the Book: Set in the 1930s and ’40s, twins Friedel and Gina live a happy childhood until the rise of the Nazis shatters their world. Jewish and facing persecution, their family is uprooted, they enter ghettos and prison camps, and through unimaginable hardship they rely on love, sisterhood and friendship to survive. A harrowing true story of survival, hope and the bonds that sustain us in the darkest places.