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Contents: Four perfect pebbles -- A small town in Germany -- Get dressed and come with us -- Escape to Holland -- Greatest disappointment -- On the death train -- Freedom and sorrow -- Holland again -- America, at last

Summary: Marion Blumenthal Lazan's memoir of the devastating years that shaped her childhood. Following Hitler's rise to power, the Blumenthal family - father, mother, Marion, and her brother, Albert - were trapped in Nazi Germany. They managed eventually to get to Holland, but soon thereafter it was occupied by the Nazis. For the next six and a half years the Blumenthals were forced to live in refugee, transit, and prison camps, including Westerbork in Holland and Bergen-Belsen in Germany, before finally making it to the United States. Their story is one of horror and hardship, but it is also a story of courage, hope, and the will to survive