The Stolen Years

the long version

Adolescence in the inferno. Sara Plager was an eleven-year-old child when the Nazis invaded Poland. She was a young woman of seventeen when their reign of horror ended. This is Sara Plager Zyskind's story of the years between -- the years that should have been those of joyful discovery, and instead were those of savage suffering and supreme testing. From the growing nightmare of ghetto life under the Nazis, to the trauma and near-miraculous deliverance from the Auschwitz death mill, to the ultimate hell of the infamous Mittelstein slave labor camp, hers is an odyssey of agony that should never be forgotten -- and an epic of love and courage that the reader will want to remember forever. - Back cover.