CONTENTS

Prologue – Leaving Home: April 14, 1942

PART ONE

1   Introducing John

2   The Neubauer Family

3   A Proud Country: October 1937

4   The Nazis Arrive: March 15, 1939

5   Laws and Restrictions: July 1939

6   War in the World: September 1939

PART TWO

7   The Request: June 1940

8   Summer Days at the Swimming Hole: July 1940

9   Ruda’s Idea: August 1940

10   Everyone Loves Klepy

11   Back to School: September 1940

12   The Reporting Team

13   Ruda’s Invitation

14   A New Reporter

15   Frances in Brno: February 1941

16   The Underground Reporters: March 1941

17   The Outing: June 1941

18   Goodbye to the Swimming Hole: August 1941

19   The Last Days of Klepy: September 1941

20   Deportation: November 1941

21   Getting Ready to Leave: February 1942

22   Hiding Klepy

23   Leaving Home: April 1942

PART THREE

24   Theresienstadt: April 1942

25   In the Barracks

26   Bobrick

27   A Special Ceremony: June 13, 1943

28   A Wedding in Theresienstadt

29   Leaving Theresienstadt: November 1943

30   Life and Death in Auschwitz

31   The March: April 1945

Epilogue – Finding Klepy

Acknowledgements