The incred­i­ble true account of Ernest Fontheim, a young Jew­ish stu­dent who, in a des­per­ate gam­bit to escape the Nazis, went under­ground in his home­town of Berlin, pos­ing as an Aryan with anoth­er young escapee — a har­row­ing tale of sur­vival that would have been lost if not for his grand­son, Jor­dan, and renowned Holo­caust schol­ar Fred Rosen­baum. Weav­ing togeth­er Fontheim’s oral his­to­ry, inter­views, and writ­ings — includ­ing a diary that he kept in the 1940s — this mem­oir was start­ed by Fontheim and, after his pass­ing, com­plet­ed by his fam­i­ly and Rosen­baum. The Boy Who Van­ished is the stun­ning tale of a young man’s strug­gle to hold onto his human­i­ty in a coun­try gone mad — and his unlike­ly tri­umph over the forces of darkness.