From whistling bombs and hidden Jewish neighbors to a prison cell and her father's forced service on the Russian front, Irene tells us the true story of World War 2 through the eyes of a child. Growing up in eastern Germany, Irene first ran from the police when she was five years old. By the age of eight she remembers adults listening to radio speeches by Hitler. In the year that both Irene and Anne Frank turned 10, World War 2 broke out. Soon her friends wore yellow stars and the Nazi youth bullied children and adults alike who were of mixed heritage. Take a journey behind the lines to civilian life in My World War II Childhood.