FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT is the story of a German-Jewish family that endured years of unmitigated anguish during the catastrophe that was the Holocaust, first in what they thought was their homeland and then in Occupied Belgium. Even though it presents a coldly, brutally accurate depiction of the harshness of life during the time of the Third Reich, FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT has the fluid plot, bold characters, and narrative quality of a heart-poundingly fast-paced novel. An excerpt from the book: "Ron Isaacson, born Rene Rudolf Isaacson in 1940, closed his eyes and remembered what his mother and father had said: that as far back in the shadowy, remote past, for as many generations as his family could count, they had been German, and exceedingly proud of that heritage. They were also Jews, and proud of that too ... None of those people had ever imagined that one of those ancient ancestries would be cause to cancel out the other.""