Anna was only nine years old in 1933, too busy with her school work and
friends to take much notice of Adolf Hitler's face glaring out of
political posters all over Berlin. Being Jewish, she thought, was just
something you were because your parents and grandparents were Jewish.
But then one day her father was unaccountably, frighteningly missing.
Soon after, she and her brother, Max, were hurried out of Germany by
their mother with alarming secrecy.
Reunited in Switzerland, Anna and her family embark on an adventure that
would go on for years, in several different countries. They learn many
new things: new languages, how to cope with the wildest confusions, and
how to be poor. Anna soon discovers that there are special skills to
being a refugee. And as long as the family stayed together, that was all
that really mattered.