Hava (Eva) Bromberg and Ephraim Sokal were Jewish teenagers in Poland when the Nazis invaded their homeland in 1939. Hiding in plain sight, Bromberg evaded the Germans by living among the non-Jewish Polish population, always in danger of discovery or betrayal. Sokal and his family were deported as "enemies of the people" when the Russians occupied eastern Poland--a calamity that ultimately saved their lives. Liberated by the 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Sokal fought the Germans, serving with the Polish Navy and British armed forces. When Bromberg and Sokal met in 1947, they both faced the challenges of surviving in a postwar world they were unprepared for. This combined memoir tells their story of resilience in the face of human brutality.