"Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on the Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country. Because he survived, Eddie made the vow to smile every day. He pays...

By turns thrilling and terrifying, this is the autobiographical account of Marie Jalowicz Simon, a 19-year-old Jewish woman, who ripped off her yellow star and survived the war by going underground from 1942 to 1945. In the years that follow, Marie lives under an assumed identity, moving between almost 20 different safe houses. Never certain who can be trusted, it is her quick-witted determination and the most amazing and hair-raising strokes of luck...