A True Story of a Jewish Child Fleeing the Holocaust
In 1938, twelve-year-old Edith is forced to leave everything behind—her parents, her tiny German village, and the only life she has ever known—to journey to a place that feels as foreign as the moon: Chicago, Illinois. And she must make this journey alone.
“How could we leave the only world we had ever known? Parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and cousins — all were holding hands, clinging to one another, as if they’d never let go.”
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