Summary
A young girl named Riva is trying to survive through World War 2/Holocaust. She struggles to try and keep her mother with them, but the Nazis at this point don't care. The Nazis told her that her mother looked really sick and that she had to go with no choices. Riva was forced to take care of her 3 little bothers Laibele, Motele, and Rifkele. Rifkele is very sick, and Riva doesn't think that hes going to be able to fight the Nazis anymore and that they are hopeless and that they have their own way of winning in the end. Then, one day social services comes and tries to take her brothers away because they think that she is not capable of taking care of her three brothers by herself, but this means that their family would be separated apart and that would cause them to be at a higher chance of getting taken by the Nazis. The social worker has sympathy for Riva and lets her take care of her brothers, but then Riva manages to get sick, and struggles to survive for her brothers. To hear what happens next... read the book.