Ben-Eliezer grew up in Germany in a Jewish family under the shadow of the Nazis. He was forced into exile in Siberia, barely escaping with his life from starvation and disease in southern Asia, and finally made it to the land of Israel. Faced with the horror of the Holocaust, he was determined to fight for the independence of his new homeland. But the inhumanity of war continued to pursue him, along with the question: why cannot men and women live together in peace?--From the publisher's description.