Susie Weksler was only eight in 1941 when Hitler’s forces invaded her Lithuanian city of Vilnius, a great center for Jewish learning and culture. Soon her family would face hunger and fear in the Jewish ghetto – but worse was to come. When the ghetto was liquidated, some Jews were selected for forced labor camps; the rest were killed. Susie would live – because of the courage and ingenuity of her mother. It was her mother who carried Susie, hidden in a backpack, to the group destined for the labor camps; who disguised her as an adult in makeup and turban to fool the camp guards; who fed her body and soul through gruesome conditions in three concentration camps and a winter “death march”; who showed her the power of the human spirit to endure.

Related: Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, Lithuania, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

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• ISBN: 9780803722354
• Authors: Pressler, Mirjam; Rabinovici, Schoschana; Skofield, James
• Translator: Skofield, James
• Published: 1998, Dial
• Themes: Concentration camps, Courage, Fear, Holocaust, invasion, Jewish, memoir, Personal narrative, World War II
• Descriptors: Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, Lithuania, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
• No. of pages: 256