This book is about Lilo and her family. Lilo is a Sinti girl living with her family in Vienna during WWII. At first the Nazi's allow her to continue to go to school and live in her house. But the Nazi's are keeping track of all Gypsy families just like they did with Jewish families. After a while, they begin sending them to the concentration camps also. This book focuses on Lilo and her mother and some of the other gypsy prisoners as they are used as extras by Hitler's favorite filmmaker, Lena Riefenstahl. Lena Riefenstahl is a real person who really did use prisoners as movie extras and the privileges she received because of her connection to the Nazi government. I couldn't put this book down. I wanted to see if Lilo and her family survived and what happened to her friend Django that she met in one of the camps. I also knew that the author provided more information on both the Gypsy culture as well as Lina Riefenstahl and the back of the book and I was anxious to get to that. (I didn't let myself skip ahead).
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