Child of the Light

This remarkable book follows the lives of three friends, Solomon Freund, a Jew, Erich Wiesser, his Catholic neighbor and â brother in bloodâ , and Miriam Rathenau, whom both boys love, and who happens to be niece of Germanyâ s foreign minister Walther Rathenau. From their youth helping at their parentsâ co-owned tobacco shop, the boys find their relationship strained, as was all of Germany, by the growth of the National Socialist party and the descent of Germany into a Nazi hell.