One night in 1944, Luba Tryszynska’s questions were answered when she found fifty-four children abandoned behind the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Luba knew if the Nazis caught her she could be executed. But they are someone’s children. And they are hungry. Despite the mortal dangers, Luba and the women of her barracks cared for these orphans thro-ugh a winter of disease, starvation, and war. Here is the true story of an everyday hero and the children who gave her a reason to live.

In the course of human history there seems to be a never ending event of one group trying to wipe out another group/groups who are different from them, either by color, religion, nationality, politics....

We have the Holocaust, Darfur, Rwanda, Armenia, The Civil War here and Nanking, to name a few atrocities, too awful to even imagine how anyone could survive a day under such torture, brutality, fear, starvation, etc.

This book is a child's book - probably suitable for a child of 7-10. It tells the story of Luba, a Polish woman taken from her home during the war and shipped to Bergen Belson with her husband and young son.

She hears the cries of children during one cold nite in the camp and when she goes outside to see what was going on, she discovered 54 Dutch children dumped there when the truck driver who was ordered to shoot them all, declined to do so, so he dumped them there in the snow and cold figuring they would starve and freeze to death.

This is the heroic story of Luba and her great heroic attempts to save 54 young lives, while hoping someone was doing the same for her missing child.

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This is based on true events during WWII. What I enjoyed the most was seeing the pictures of the real Luba and her "children" at the end of the story. It's an inspiring one to say the least.

I liked this book because it showed being a hero can be risky but, it pays off in the end.

I really enjoyed this story. It was amazing how much risks and sacrifices she took to keep all of those children alive. I kept expecting this story to take a tragic turn, but it actually had a great ending. ( )