A young girl's experience of the Nazi pogrom in her Polish hometown is related with an immediacy undimmed by
time in her autobiography. In 1942, the author and her family undergo a brutal separation. Thirteen-year-old Alicia
escapes her captors, fleeing through fields and woods, encountering fellow refugees and occasionally finding safe
harbors. Although she sees her mother's wanton murder and endures physical and mental deprivation, the teenager
is supported by faith in family and in the goodness of people. Capable of rallying others, she eventually heads
a group who settle in Palestine. In 1949, she marries an American in Haifa and moves to the United States. Long
and on occasion rambling, her story contributes to an infamous history as a tale, not only of survival, but of
active resistance to oppression.