At a time when most girls are growing up, having boyfriends and embarking upon the adventure of life, Elli Friedman was taken from her small, sunny hometown and thrown into the murderous hell of Hitler?Final Solution. When Elli emerged from Auschwitz and Dachau just over a year later, she was fourteen. She looked like a sixty-year-old. this account of horrifyingly brutal inhumanity ?nd dogged survival ?s Elli'true story.