Correspondent Svenja O'Donnell knew that her mother's family had fled Königsberg near the end of World War II. But when O'Donnell traveled to the city—now Kaliningrad, and part of Russia—and called her grandmother Inge, the woman burst into tears. "I have so much to tell you," Inge said. O'Donnell vividly relates Inge's life through the rise of the Nazis and the war, and discovers a deep family secret.