So They Will Not Forget

This book is an autobiography of an Italian citizen, born and raised in Germany. The author lived through bombings of Berlin, and tells her first hand experiences of one of the final battles of World War II between the Germans and the Russians.
The story is seen through the eyes of a child who lived through the twelve years of Hitler's reign, the discrimination during Nazi-times and the after-war chaos in Germany. It shares the emotional adjustment of immigration and the re-uniting of a family torn apart by ethnic hatred.
It is also the story of the love of a mother -