Barbara Krasner

In 1939 twelve-year-old Ruthie Arons sails with her family on the M.S. St. Louis, a ship of Jewish refugees that is turned away from Cuba.

In 1937 New Jersey, Jewish Benjy and his German American best friend Tommy are pulled apart when Tommy is sent to a Nazi youth camp, and as war spreads both boys must decide what their friendship is worth.

Ethel Rosenberg tells her own story as she faces execution for spying for the Soviet Union in 1953.