"There is not a false note in this book. No Vaseline is smeared on the lens of this camera which zeros in on all who are caught up in this world. It records unflinchingly: Grandfather Jakob caught by the Nazis, broken by the prospect of death, begins to save his life by turning in hiding Jews. Father and mother know that non-Jew Jan's love for their daughter has moved him to hide them…They know when the relationship turns physical and also resent the embarrassment of a Jewish-Gentile relationship….Scene after scene lacerates our souls and breakes our heart." From the Foreward by Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, Author, Living in the Image of God: Jewish Teachings to Perfect the World.

Fanya Gottesfeld Heller was born into a traditional middle-class Jewish family in a small Ukrainian village in 1924. Defenseless against the German occupation, beset by hunger, marked for death by their neighbors and faced with the constant threat of discover and execution, the family hid from the Nazi death squads and survived the Holocaust thanks to the courage of two Christian rescuers. Mrs. Heller has made it her life's work to teach the lessons she learned about the victory of life over death and to share her message of hope with others around the world.