In 1944, as Budapest's Jews begin to suffer under Nazi German occupation, eleven-year-old Zsuzsi (Susie) takes to her diary (1944 entries, June-October) to write about her friends and family as she copes with what it means to be persecuted. Precocious and charming, Susie records the mundane along with the poignant as she describes her daily life in Budapest, Hungary, against the backdrop of World War II. Her pre-teen life is marred by farewells--first to her father, as he is drafted into the forced labour service, and then to her mother when Hungarian fascist collaborators, the Arrow Cross, take her away. Alone after the war, Susie writes again in her diary (1947 entries) and makes a fateful decision to leave her relatives and embark on a journey to Canada, where she lands in Vegreville, Alberta, and struggles to adapt and begins to yearn for her home in Hungary. Uncertain whether she made the right decision to emigrate, Susie writes all her feelings down in a new diary (1948-1950 entries), the only place where she feels she truly belongs. Susan Garfield (born Zsuzsanna Loffler, 1933) came to Canada on the War Orphan's Project through the Canadian Jewish Congress, and her post-war diary reflects on her loneliness, her yearning for an education, and a deep desire to find belonging. Also included in this volume is Susan's memoir, which gives a full picture of her life during World War II and the Holocaust, as well as how she eventually managed to find home in Winnipeg.