Vera Gissing's memoirs, first published in 1988, tell the story of Jewish children who were taken from Czechoslovakia to England in June 1939 to escape the Holocaust. Vera was not even eleven years old when her parents put her on a train, sending her to a foreign country in the hope that she would be safe there. For six years the girl endured all the hardships of the war, being in Great Britain, far from her mother and father, who remained in the occupation. She kept a diary where she recorded daily observations, where she worried about her family and prayed for the liberation of her country. She managed to return to Prague only after the defeat of fascism. But what awaited Vera in the ruins of her beloved Czechoslovakia? Are there any survivors left? Her deeply felt confession unfolds into a real reflection on the power of the human will, the guiding beacon of hope, and the nature of good and evil.