They tried to erase her. Instead, she became a leg­end. At just sev­en years old, Edna Szurek risked every­thing to smug­gle food through holes in the War­saw Ghet­to wall, know­ing each step could be her last. By the age of 10, she was the youngest dec­o­rat­ed mem­ber of the Pol­ish resis­tance. And by the end of the war, she had defied every Nazi plan for her destruc­tion. Though she fought armed with a pis­tol, Edna’s true weapons were wit, brav­ery, and an unshak­able love for her sis­ter. Dis­guised as a Catholic girl, she even earned a medal from Pope Pius XII, who nev­er knew he was hon­or­ing a Jew­ish child who had out­smart­ed the Reich. Drawn from over five hours of her first­hand tes­ti­mo­ny record­ed by the USC Shoah Foun­da­tion, this pow­er­ful mem­oir traces Edna’s impos­si­ble jour­ney: from the ash­es of a shat­tered birth­day cel­e­bra­tion to the bru­tal real­i­ty of a POW camp, escap­ing the dead­ly con­fines of the War­saw Ghet­to to find the hid­den safe­ty of a con­vent sanc­tu­ary. Edna Szurek should not have sur­vived the Holo­caust. But she did. And her sto­ry will stay with you forever.