Two teenagers, living worlds apart . . .
A Jewish girl, with her parents, hiding
from the Nazis in Amsterdam. . .
A Black boy, living outside Chicago . . .
The girl, studiously writing a diary, week
after week, month after month, which she kept secret,
even from her parents. . .
The Black boy, wanting to visit distant relatives
in Mississippi. . .
How the girl and her family were finally captured
by the Nazis and she how died in a Nazi death camp at 15 . . .
How the Black boy from Chicago was lynched in
Mississippi at 14 . . .
How the publication of the girls's diary, found after her death,
and how the decision by the boy's mother, about his funeral,
changed the world.
