Maria Gabrielsen's account is a harrowing testimony of familial betrayal in Nazi Austria: the story of a denunciation by her own mother. As a result, Maria, at the age of ten, is deported to Theresienstadt with her six siblings - miraculously, all seven survive the ghetto. Her return to Vienna sets off a sensational trial against her mother. After the war, she manages to find a new family and a new home in Norway, ultimately confronting her traumatic past, which she recounts in this book.