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When Time Ran Out, Coming of Age in The Third Reich
His Story will touch your heart and make you never forget. He was a typical boy; sneaking cigarettes with his best friend, slipping into the cinema unseen-and always finding trouble. But there was one important difference for Frederic Zeller: he was Jewish, growing up in Berlin at the volatile dawn of Hitler's regime.rnTold with the youthful fervor and candid innocence of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, and based on Zeller's own boyhood journals, this remarkable memoir is a testament to the unflagging spirit of youth during history's most devastating events. Through Zeller's eyes we see what it was like for the boy to discover his friends had joined the Hitler youth; to watch his classmates give the Nazi salute in school; to his father's business run asunder by anti-Jewish laws; to witness the madness of Kristallnacht; and finally to grow from innocence to the painful awareness-at age fourteen- that he must plan his own escape from Germany in order to survive...
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