Grandma tells Rachel and Lewis how the feather pillow she treasures was once a huge feather bed made by their great-grandmother in Poland. Grandma slept on the bed as a little girl, and shared it with five other children after the sad times came and the Germans forced Jewish people into the ghetto. "They didn't want Jews in Poland. They didn't want Jews anywhere." An introduction to the Holocaust is skillfully presented for younger readers in a picture book that also tells of the kindness of a Polish farmer who helped save Grandma's life, and later sent the remnants of the feather bed to her in America. Full-page illustrations balance images of fearful times with those of a warm, secure, loving family. (Ages 5-8)

As she tries to repair a torn feather pillow, Grandma tells about her childhood in Poland, about the Nazi persecution of Jews during World War II, and about the origin of this special pillow.