Tree of Life Book 3, Cattle Cars Are Waiting, 1942-1944: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto (Library of world fiction)

On the Brink of the Precipice, the first volume of the trilogy The Tree of Life, describes the lives of the novel's ten protagonists in the Lodz Ghetto before the outbreak of World War II. The author, herself a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, creates realistic characters who struggle daily to retain a sense of humanity and dignity.