As Mira is nearing the end of her life, Rachelle wants to find out how she had lived through four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and a Death March. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed—which perhaps had something to do with the strange things that always happened around her. She says that it was during this time—despite witnessing the depths of man’s cruelty—that she learned about “the goodness of people.” Mira was only 12 years old when World War II broke out. At 88, she is diagnosed with cancer, and her daughter decides to interview her to distract her from her illness. This book portrays not only how remote a prospect it was to live through the Holocaust, but what it is like to be the child of a survivor.