Recipient of 2009 International Einhard Prize for best biography/autobiography.

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.