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"'Srulik, there's no time. I want you to remember what I'm going to tell you. You have to stay alive. You have to! Get someone to teach you how to act like a Christian, how to cross yourself and pray....The most important thing, Srulik,' he said, talking fast, 'is to forget your name. Wipe it from your memory....But even if you forget everything-even if you forget me and Mama-never forget that you're a Jew.'" And so, at only eight years old, Srulik...

During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.