There are many books telling the war theatres of WWII; their battles and heroes. But in this book, you will discover what and how 15 everyday people experienced the war, before and after, and survived living with much hardship. In this book these story-tellers show how they overcame the hardships and built their lives to become content and even happy.This book also shows the turbulent times from the end of WWI (1918) through Hitler's coming to power in 1933. Only when one sees these events of time, the social and political atmosphere, can one understand how a Hitler could come to power and let loose such hell.The important message here is that out of hell and destruction new lives can be built.