I wish that Elly the main character and the author of the book she explain what had happened in her past and what I meant to her like finding out her father was sent to the concentration camp before her and her mother and how he was killed or how she felt guilty for not being her mother to let go of Albert and come with her (Albert is her baby brother) they wanted him to grow strong so that he could be the medic or a doctor but unfortunately fate had a different point of view for her brother and he never was able to give her brother a full chance of living on her birthday her mother’s brother came and gave her a little knife she kept it with her on the way to the concentration camp they were put in a train for about three whole days she used her knife to make holes for her mother,brother, and her she was separated from her family at the age of fifteen and been making a chance for survival