When the Germans occupied Poland in World War II, they forced Jews into overcrowded ghettoes. To help her family survive the horrific conditions that followed, eleven-year-old Bronia risked her life, smuggling goods to trade for food. Then came the terrible day that Bronia and her sisters were sent to the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp, where most inmates were killed. But through courage, luck, and the kindness of a stranger, Bronia lived to tell her amazing life story. Young readers will never forget this incredible true story of one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, fully illustrated with stirring black-and-white archival photos.