julie francolino: a courageous young girl in nazi germany i greatly enjoyed this book! the author writes in a very candid way about her life as a child in nazi germany. as germany becomes a nazi state with tremendous pressure on everyone to conform without question, she very well tells the story of how her family goes through a change of religion, to become jehovah's witnesses, and gain strength to remain true to bible principles in spite of very real threats and punishments inflicted on her family and finally on her personally when she is taken away to live alone in an orphanage where human kindness was extremely rare, especially to anyone who chose to stick to their principles.