A Desperate Decision - Our Escape to Freedom

This book tells of my family's Escape from Hitler Germany in a second-hand, 10 year old Chevrolet convertible. It was more than crowded with six of us, - and yet we often slept in it too. There were my parents and us four children ranging in age from 7 to 15.
My father was an intellectual, a writer and artist. He had two left thumbs as far as anything mechanical goes. He did not know how to drive when he bought the car. And yet he drove us through Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Bulgar...