'Live, Miri. Don't let the Nazis wipe out our entire family, our entire people ... Don't think of anything but survival ... Promise me, Miri. Promise me you'll try to survive.'
I nodded slowly. And promised.
Miri's happy life is interrupted when the Jew-hating Germans march into Warsaw. Soon, she and her family must move to the ghetto. She hopes that now they will be left alone, but what the Nazis have planned is far worse than she could have ever imagined.