Edith's Story was a good book, not an excellent one. She, in my opinion, never suffered as did other Jewish people during the Second World War. Yes, she lost her father, mother, brother, and grandmother. However, she never had to see the atrocities of the death camps. The whole first half of the book centers on Edith's life (via her diary entries) and how she was having one party after another and was in love with one boy after another. She learned some harsh facts as the war progressed, but she, again, in my opinion, never truly suffered as did other people. She never went hungry and was VERY lucky in being taken into the family that she was with. I found the side notes regarding the actual camps and holocaust history to more interesting than the prattlings of a 14-year-old child. It is definitely not the best Holocaust book I've read, but I would recommend it as it does have a different perspective than the other autobiographies of that era.