Although Ruth Gruber was but a young child in Vienna, Austria when the Nazis imposed their anti-Semitic laws, she remembers this childhood vividly. The uniqueness of the narrative results from her frankness in revealing her mother's emotional problems, which at first kept Ruth from avoiding the concentration camps by getting on a Kinder Transport, but in the end saved them both from death in Auschwitz. We had to wait until now to read this account because in order to protect her mother's feelings, Dr. Gruber refrained from publishing it in English until after her mother died. He mother lived to be ninety-seven years old.