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Suggests how to set goals and achieve your dreams, using such tools as discipline and maintaining a positive attitude.

The author recounts how she gradually lost her sight from retinal hemorrhages, and describes her experiences in a training program for blind adults.

During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.

The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp. Includes several of her original poems.