A pity that this work consists only of fragments; in its way, it is a remarkably document. Hedi Fried was a 15 year old Romanian Jewess when war broke out in 1939, and late in the war she and her family were shipped to Auschwitz and later to Bergen Belsen. Liberation came shortly after that, but she never saw her parents again, though her sister survived. She married a fellow survivor from her native place and they moved to Sweden, where they married and had three sons, but her husband died at forty. Her book is not on the level of Janine Baumann's account of her war years in the Warsaw ghetto, but it is the raw stuff of history in a frightful time. Michael Meyer, the acclaimed biographer of Ibsen and Strindberg, translates from the Swedish original.