Parallel Journeys

Parallel Journeys

<b>She was a young German Jew. He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. This is the story of their parallel journey through World War II. </b><br><br>Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck were born just a few miles from each other in the German Rhineland. But their lives took radically different courses: Helen€s to the Auschwitz concentration camp; Alfons to a high rank in the Hitler Youth.<br> <br>While Helen was hiding in Amsterdam, Alfons was a fanatic believer in Hitler€s €œmaster race.€ While she was crammed in a cattle car bound for the death camp Auschwitz, he was a teenage commander of frontline troops, ready to fight and die for the glory of Hitler and the Fatherland. This book tells both of their stories, side-by-side, in an overwhelming account of the nightmare that was World War II. The riveting stories of these two remarkable people must stand as a powerful lesson to us all.