Overview
Ever since they started school, Inge and Lieselotte have been best friends. But now it is 1938, they are thirteen, and the world is changing. Inge is Jewish, and Lieselotte, at the insistence of her Nazi father, is in the Hitler Youth. Their friendship has become unwiseeven dangerous. Yet in a world of increasing terror and despair, as the situation of Jews in Austria becomes more and more desperate, the two girls secretly struggle against the devil in Vienna to keep their friendship alive. This new edition contains an illuminating afterword by Doris Orgel.
Arouses in its readers anguish, fury, admiration, scornit couldn't be a more effective story or a more powerful illustration of the reason `never to forget.'
Publishers Weekly