A fictionalized account of the life of a woman who, as an infant in 1944, was saved from the Holocaust when her parents threw her from the train carrying them to a concentration camp. Includes author's note about how she came to hear the true story.

Orphaned at the age of four when her village in Viet Nam is bombed, Kim is rescued by American soldiers and raised in an orphanage, always finding comfort in her mother's last words: 'Don't be afraid. I will always be with you.'

After many years of watching the solemn lighting of seven candles at Rosh Hashanah, Eli finally learns how those candles represent his family's connection to the Holocaust in Lithuania.

A woman recalls how she was thrown from a train headed for a Nazi death camp in 1944, raised by someone who risked her own life to save the baby's, and finally found some peace through her own family.