This new edi­tion of an impor­tant Holo­caust mem­oir per­mits a sec­ond gen­er­a­tion of read­ers, espe­cial­ly old­er ado­les­cent girls, to read about how a Ukrain­ian sol­dier, Jan, betrayed his com­rades, his vil­lage soci­ety, and his own fam­i­ly by dar­ing to love Fanya and to shel­ter her fam­i­ly through that ter­ri­ble peri­od. Heller was 18 when first the Rus­sians and then the Ger­mans invad­ed her town. Her chat­ty, descrip­tive writ­ing will trans­port young read­ers to her side as she expe­ri­ences the occu­pa­tion and the inter­ven­tion of her lover, as well as the loy­al­ty of the family’s for­mer maid and her hus­band, who hid part of the fam­i­ly. Jan’s kind­ness and shield­ing of her imme­di­ate fam­i­ly enabled them to sur­vive, except for her father. The author sus­pects Jan mur­dered her father after the war, when he may have denied per­mis­sion for them to mar­ry. Fanya’s moth­er wants her to have a man by her side dur­ing the uncer­tain post­war peri­od and Fanya choos­es among three suit­ors intro­duced to her by a match­mak­er. With him she has a long and hap­py mar­riage, chil­dren and grand­chil­dren. Heller’s untir­ing tes­ti­mo­ny before groups, espe­cial­ly of young peo­ple, and her sup­port of Holo­caust- relat­ed orga­ni­za­tions and pro­grams, are laud­able and are described in the intro­duc­tion and adden­da of this book.