Alexa wasn't Jewish, but that didn't matter to the Nazis. In the autumn of 1940, thirteen-year-old Alexa's happy life is ripped from her as she, her mother, and many of the locals are rounded up in Lublin, Poland. Loaded into cattle wagons, they are transported to an unknown destination, where terror and uncertainty become the new normal. Selected by an SS officer's wife, Alexa is destined to become little more than...