Jacob (age 13) and Moses (age 9) are brothers living with their Aunt Judith when they are rounded up by the Germans in Paris. They are taken to the Velodrome d'Hiver with thousands of other Jewish people. They work to find a way out of the Velodrome along with another Jewish boy, Joseph, whose parents have been taken to a labor camp. Joseph wants to go find his parents at the camp, even with the understanding that he would not be able to come out once he got in.
Jacob and Moses want to get to where their parents are and go back to their apartment to find Aunt Judith has jumped out of the window to her death. They take their passports and some money and leave the apartment. They stopped at the neighbor's apartment beneath theirs. From there, they get hooked up with the Underground to get them out of Occupied France.
The book details their determination to get out of France and to the ship that will take them to their parents, with the help of several members of the Underground. They see things children their ages should never see before they get to where they need to be.
This is a five star book, with two thumbs up, and a way of escape from the prisons that would enclose you.
My thanks go to Thomas Nelson and NetGalley.com for providing the galley I read for this review.
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