Can two young men who meet in a concentration camp become friends? Especially if one of them is a prisoner and the other is his guard?Years after the end of WWII, when the two brothers, Hans and Herschel Rothberg have passed on, a lawyer presents their surviving family with a letter, a document that completely turns their world upside down. This manuscript chronicles the relationship of two young men, boys actually, who are thrown together by their experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. It describes their amazing journey from Kefferstadt Camp to a Displaced Persons camp in Germany, and finally to the United States, and the life they are able to make there.Herschel and Hans become brothers in the truest sense of the word. Seperately they were doomed, but working together, they just might be able to survive.
Can two young men who meet in a concentration camp become friends? Especially if one of them is a prisoner and the other is his guard?Years after the end of WWII, when the two brothers, Hans and Herschel Rothberg have passed on, a lawyer presents their surviving family with a letter, a document that completely turns their world upside down. This manuscript chronicles the relationship of two young men, boys actually, who are thrown together by their experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. It describes their amazing journey from Kefferstadt Camp to a Displaced Persons camp in Germany, and finally to the United States, and the life they are able to make there.Herschel and Hans become brothers in the truest sense of the word. Seperately they were doomed, but working together, they just might be able to survive.
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