What Gerda wrote was not an actual writer using people's stories to create one. But when people write their own stories about the Holocaust, they might use Gerda's as an example because she wrote the book so well and so detailed that I thought I was there with her. I think Gerda did an incredible job writing this book and putting so much work and detail into it. I concluded that I even had a different perspective on the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a horrible thing, and although I have read several books, this one was real and not sugarcoated. I now know what the Jews and many others went through and how much they suffered. I think what surprised me the most was that the SS locked the Jews in the factory with the bomb. You had to be heartless to do that to anyone. Everything they did in general, from the horrible food (bread and coffee) they gave them to the jobs they have (linen detail). Even though Gerda had a hard time getting out of the camps, she at least found a happy ending with it.