Child of the Light

This book follows three friends, Solomon Freund, a Jew, Erich Wiesser, his Catholic neighbor and "e;brother in blood"e;, and Miriam Rathenau, whom both boys love, and who happens to be niece of Germany's foreign minister Walther Rathenau. From their youth helping at their parents' co-owned tobacco shop, the boys find their relationship strained by Germany's descent into Nazi hell.