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"With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, to think forbidden thoughts of freedom, yet she can't help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their...

In the first part, "The Final Solution," the author "records the origins and growth of the virulent ideology that underlay the plan to annihilate the European Jews," and in the second part, "The Holocaust," she describes "the Jewish plight under German terror."--Jacket.

In 1943 ten-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sister Larissa, and sent to a slave labor camp in Germany, but when she is moved and set to making bombs she sees a way to strike back at the Nazis.

Luka, a Ukrainian boy working in a slave labor camp, plays dead after an explosion at the factory and escapes, eventually joining a resistance group that opposes both the Nazis and the Soviets, and through the danger of the guerilla fighting he has two overriding goals--find out if his parents are still alive, and reunite with Lida, a girl who was a friend in the labor camp.

Traces Dietrich Bonhoeffer's involvement in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler during World War II. Discusses Bonhoeffer's childhood, work as a pastor and scholar, his introduction to activism, and his choice to become a spy and informant for the Allied troops. Includes black-and-white photographs, sidebars, and a timeline.