"Try to Make Your Life": A Jewish Girl Hiding in Nazi Berlin

On January 25, 1943, the day of a planned escape from Nazi Germany, 22-year-old Margot Bendheim learns that the Gestapo has just picked up her brother and mother. Her mother manages to leave her a message, "Try to make your life." This is Margot's award winning story...written when she was 88 years old.



In 2009 the book received the biennial Einhard Prize for best autobiography/biography.