Idea Behind the Book
The idea behind this novel was based on Anita's actual childhood, she was a Jewish child who lived in Poland which was soon controlled by Nazis. This book is not a story to the author, but a memoir. To let society and just people of all ages know what struggles Jews had to go through that we wouldn't have to go through today, a lesson to appreciate what we have and not to take it for granted. Anita Lobel chose to write this book for a purpose, to change the way we think about our lives, she took her childhood from the holocaust and put it into words that she had kept inside since she moved to America.