As she comes of age in this strange place, she confronts its prejudices as she hides the truth of her past from her new family. Soon, Gretl finds refuge with Jakob, a Polish freedom fighter, and his family, where she is sheltered until the end of the war Gretl is then sent away to a new life, a new name, and a new faith in Apartheid-era South Africa. The daughter of a German soldier, Gretl understands very little about how her grandmothers Jewishness brought her first to the ghetto, then to the train, and now, to the Polish countryside where she wanders, searching for food and water for her dying sister. Six-year-old Gretl and her sister jump from a train bound for Auschwitz, her mother and grandmother unable to squeeze between the bars covering the windows. "A sweeping international love story that celebrates the triumph of the human spirit over the inhumanities of war and prejudice.
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