parallel journeys

-in Chapter 2, Helen and her family lived in Frankfurt, Germany. Helen's mother was German and her father came from Lithuania. They knew that Hitler hated the Jews but the thought of mass murder seemed implausible.

-In September of 1933, all Jews lost their German citizenship and most towns started to cleanse themselves of Jewish people. More than 100,000 Jews left Germany during Hitler's first two years in power. Helen and Siegfried settled in Amsterdam and soon met other young couples who had also fled Nazi Germany.