The Boy Who Vanished: A True Story of Surviving the Holocaust

The incredible true account of a young Jewish student who, in a desperate gambit to escape the Nazis, went underground in his hometown of Berlin, posing as an Aryan with another young escapee-a harrowing ordeal that he would miraculously escape not only with his life, but also with a love that would last a lifetime.

In 1933, the year that Hitler seized power in Germany, Ernest Fontheim was a bookish and playful 11-year-old, leading a charmed existence in Berlin with his assimilated upper-cl...