This recollection of both the attempted extinction of the Jewish people and one woman's three-year ordeal in a Czechoslovakian concentration camp strengthens the link between the disastrous past and the new and hopeful future. Gertie Spies's amazingly positive outlook can be summarized in her two sayings: Understand and love, and Forgive, but don't forget. She tells her personal account of the Holocaust without bitterness, and in hopes that people of all kinds will better understand each other. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.