Erika Schulhof Rybeck enjoyed a magical childhood in Austria, escaped to a convent boarding school in Scotland, and started a new life in America. She tells her story as a tribute to the parents who shielded her from the Nazi hor-rors swirling around her, horrors that led to their deportation and disappear-ance. After being a teacher, mother and volunteer, among other activities, in Ohio and in the Washington, DC area, she looks back at age 84 at rare experiences--living in castles and cottages, being sheltered by Catholics, discov-ering her Jewish heritage, and learning of her illustrious family.