August 17, 2017, Toronto --Award-winning author Kathy Kacer, writing with Jordana Lebowitz, brings to life the true story of nineteen-year-old Jordana's experience attending the war criminal trial of Oskar Groening. Groening worked at the Auschwitz concentration camp and became known as the "Bookkeeper of Auschwitz." In 2015 he stood trial in Germany for being complicit in the deaths of more than 300,000 Jews. A granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Jordana knew a great deal about the Holocaust and had travelled to Europe to visit Auschwitz. But she was not prepared for what she would see and hear at Oskar Groening's trial. Jordana's witnessing of this pivotal moment of Holocaust history brings the past into the present for young readers. Through Jordana's eyes we see a man who looks completely ordinary, yet who was a part of the horror of the Nazi death camps. Groening's testimony and his defence of his actions clarify the imperative that we cannot stand by and do nothing while others are hurt.

That it is up to all of us to take responsibility to end racism and persecution. Through Jordana's relationships with the Holocaust survivors who came to testify against Groening, we see their bravery and perseverance, and their belief that justice can never come too late. Young people are hungry for stories like this, as they become aware of the intolerance and persecution around them and take up the mantle of social justice.