"Frederic Zeller has written a book about his childhood in Nazi Germany. His story, based, like Anne Frank's, on diaries and notes he kept during those years, is the account of a normal, healthy, intelligent boy growing up in a world where to be a Jew was to be marked as a target for scorn, rage, and eventually, for millions, extermination. Like Frank's diary, Zeller's book is seen through the eyes of an adolescent whose understanding of the horrors about to take place is imperfect, but whose understanding, sadly, is forced ...
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"Frederic Zeller has written a book about his childhood in Nazi Germany. His story, based, like Anne Frank's, on diaries and notes he kept during those years, is the account of a normal, healthy, intelligent boy growing up in a world where to be a Jew was to be marked as a target for scorn, rage, and eventually, for millions, extermination. Like Frank's diary, Zeller's book is seen through the eyes of an adolescent whose understanding of the horrors about to take place is imperfect, but whose understanding, sadly, is forced to develop". -- Publishers Weekly New American Writing Award
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