This is an Anne Frank story with a happy ending; the author recounts his youth in Holland, a Jewish kid being pursued by, and hidden from, the Nazis. He finds himself orphaned at war’s end, his father having perished in a camp and his mother having succumbed to cancer, He is raised by an indifferent family, losing a leg in the process. At age twenty he leaves Holland for America where he has a successful career in chemistry (Michigan PhD 1961) and medicine.