The book was very well researched. You could tell, because the author managed to stuff every single fact she had learned into it. At the expense of the book's organization, making it difficult to keep track of all of the different people. I also had problems with the discord between the horrific events described and the very simple declarative sentences used to describe them. The holocaust and its aftermath, told on a grade school level. But I did learn things, so I'd say that it was a worth-while read.