‘Among the most moving documents I have read in years … You will not forget it’ Elie Wiesel


From her small, sunny hometown between the beautiful Carpathian Mountains and the blue Danube River, Elli Friedmann was taken – at a time when most girls are growing up, having boyfriends and embarking upon the adventure of life – and thrown into the murderous hell of Hitler's Final Solution.


When Elli emerged from Auschwitz and Dachau just over a year later, she was fourteen. She looked like a sixty year old.


This account of horrifyingly brutal inhumanity – and dogged survival – is Elli's true story.