They Went Left

They Went Left by Monica Hesse

Text from the back cover:

Germany, 1945.  The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman.  Three years ago, she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers.  Everyone else went left.  Zofia's last words to her brother were a promise:  Abek to Zofia, A to Z.  When I find you again, we will fill our alphabet.  Now her journey to fulfill that vow takes her through Poland and Germany.  How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing?  In the rubble of a broken continent, Zofia must delve into a mystery whose answers could break her -- or help her rebuild her world.

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Ms. Sharp's quick review:  Devastating story about the world after the Holocaust.