This is an epic sto­ry of the tri­umph of good over evil. The sol­diers of D Com­pa­ny could not believe their eyes as they came face-to-face with the human cost of Hitler’s evil: two teenage boys — sur­vivors of Auschwitz and Buchen­wald — who had escaped.

The Boys in the Light fol­lows the par­al­lel jour­neys of Com­pa­ny D and Eddie Will­ner, the author’s father, as they are caught up on two sides of World War II.

At six­teen, Eddie Will­ner was among the mil­lions of Euro­pean Jews round­ed up by Hitler’s Nazis. He was forced into slave labor along­side his father and his best friend, Mike, and spent the next three years of his life sur­viv­ing the death camps, includ­ing Auschwitz. 

This extra­or­di­nary true sto­ry is a tes­ta­ment to sur­vival against all odds, the strength of the bonds forged dur­ing war, and the resilience of the human spirit.