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"I look at my garden and wonder if we will end up like that in the weeks and months to come -- broken, crushed."

Ruth Mendenberg, a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp, has risked her life to help smuggle a group of refugees into Palestine. Now she wants to forget the past and forge a new life. But violence is escalating all around her as Arabs and Jews disagree over the partitioni... More

"I look at my garden and wonder if we will end up like that in the weeks and months to come -- broken, crushed."

Ruth Mendenberg, a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp, has risked her life to help smuggle a group of refugees into Palestine. Now she wants to forget the past and forge a new life. But violence is escalating all around her as Arabs and Jews disagree over the partitioning of Palestine. Ruth will be forced to fight -- and maybe even kill -- in defense of a long-awaited prize: a place to call home. In this sequel to After the War, award-winning author Carol Matas tells the story of one girl's courage during the tumultuous events leading to the birth of the State of Israel.