Between These Walls by Mike Newman

Michael Newman brings an unparalleled authenticity to Between These Walls because he writes as someone whose life has been indelibly shaped by it. The son of Holocaust survivors, Newman has always had a deep interest in World War II, with a personal mission to understand and honor the experiences that defined his family's existence through extensive research and first-hand accounts. Between These Walls dives into the historical fiction genre with incredible cultural and factual accuracy. “My inspiration to write this book had its genesis on a trip my wife and I took to Berlin, Germany in 2015. We came upon small bronze plaques embedded in the sidewalk in front of an apartment building. It was a silent witness commemorating a family that had lived in that apartment building and had in 1944 been forcibly removed and sent to a concentration camp by the Nazis. I started to wonder who these people had been, under what circumstances had they been removed, what happened to them, and what happened to their apartment? Who was living there now, and how did they come into possession of the apartment?” Newman says.