Left motherless at his birth, Hans and his grandmother struggle to survive the cruelty of war in a small house at the edge of a German forest with nothing but what they can forage to sustain them. At sixteen, rejected by his father and his new mother, Hans looks across the ocean toward America. Covering three generations and two continents, The Goy Who Grew in the Shade is a story of a young boy's courage, hope and faith in the midst of war and personal heartbreak as he leaves his boyhood home and grows to manhood in a new Land. He overcame the darkness of his childhood and made his own sunshine....this is his story.