The Nazis have taken charge and life has changed for everyone. Germany's Jews live in the grip of icy fear. Members of the prosperous Nuremberg congregation must decide where their future lies.
As a board member, decorated WWI veteran and lawyer with a thriving practice, Walter Mannheim is deeply rooted in Germany, whereas his wife Sonia is desperate to extricate their two children from Hitler's favourite city.
Within Nuremberg, power flows between Julius Streicher, the half-mad Nazi District Commander, and ambitious Dr Benno Martin who runs the Police Commission, reputedly Himmler's man in Nuremberg. He also happens to be an old war-time comrade of Walter Mannheim.
Nazi harassment escalates. The Jewish community is decimated. Streicher orders the destruction of Nuremberg's beautiful synagogue. When a nationwide pogrom is launched on November 9
th
1938, Walter and his family are still in Germany.
This novel is based on a true story.