This book recounts the life of Kate Bosse-Griffiths and also her family during the Second World War, and the effects of the Nazi policy of genocide on her and her family. This is a poignant and moving story which relates the murder of her mother, the suicide of her aunt, and the family's persecution.

• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Some of the family’s members
• PART 1: BACKGROUND
• ‘Are you a Jew?’
• ‘Go not to Wittenberg’
• Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2
• Martin Luther: against Pope and Jew?
• Wars and Communism
• Paul and Kaethe Bosse and their family in Wittenberg
• PART 2: THE PERSECUTION
• The family ensnared
• Eva: the army officer’s wife
• Hans Ledien escapes
• Kate as refugee
• Love in the shadow of war
• PART 3: IN THE GRASP OF WAR
• The experiences of Erika Ledien during the war
• The wealth of Rhondda
• Arresting Günther and Fritz
• Cylch Cadwgan: the Cadwgan Literary Circle
• Kurt Ledien and the White Rose
• Persecuted, imprisoned and killed
• PART 4: AFTER THE WAR
• Paul Bosse
• Dolly
• Günther
• Fritz
• Kate
• Notes