The internationally bestselling memoir of survival and self-discovery by the woman whose childhood as the real-life girl in the red coat was so famously depicted in the film "Schindler's List."

Describes six years in the life of a daring and resourceful Polish Jewish boy and his family, who survived the Holocaust by using false papers and posing as Catholics.

Photographs taken secretly by a young Jewish man document the fear, hardship, generosity, and humanity woven through the daily life of the Jews forced to live in the Lodz ghetto during the Holocaust.

"Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents were overjoyed to be free. But their struggles as displaced people had just begun. In war-ravaged Europe, they waited for paperwork for a chance to come to America. Once they arrived in Brooklyn, they began to build a new life, but spoke little English. Ruth started at a new school and tried to make friends--but continued to fight nightmares and flashbacks...

Follow Holocaust survivor Israel Arbeiter as he returns to Poland for the final time to look for items buried in 1939 in the basement of his old home as the German army advanced. He also visits the Treblinka death camp where his parents and younger brother were murdered, and to other camps, most notably Auschwitz-Birkenau, where 'Izzy' used the motivation of his father's final words to him to stay alive.