What to read after Powerless in Poland?

Riga, Latvia 1939: George hears about a campaign called “Heim ins Reich” masterminded by Hitler himself, promising an exciting journey across the ocean to what is supposedly his families “Homeland.” As a happy, inquisitive 11-year-old, he embraces the adventure until he finds out there is no return. Thrown into a life forced upon them by the Third Reich, along with thousands of other Baltic Germans, the family confronts survival in a violent dictatorship.

When the Reich relocates the family to a Bakery in German Occupied Poland, George learns of the clever seduction ethnic Germans experience to entice their allegiance to the Fuhrer and the Nazi Party. Delivering day-old bread to the Lodz Ghetto each morning unveils more truths behind what the Nazi Regime plans for the world. When the family flees the Red Army’s approach in 1945, they must make another horrific exodus for freedom.

Inspired by true events, this story follows George’s coming-of-age in a dark place no one could imagine a child should ever be. And even in that place, he never loses hope.