The Streetcar to Life

It's October 16, 1943, in the Rome ghetto Emanuele hides on a tram and begins a journey that will take him, stop after stop, to the end of the line, looking for his mother, who's been taken by the Nazis. He tells the conductor that he is Jewish and asks to be protected because the Germans are looking for him. The tram driver and then others after him will help Emanuele stay alive and safe for three days until he can find his father. The author, Tea Ranno, tells the moving story of one of the last surviving witnesses of the Nazi roundup of Rome, Emanuele Di Porto. Excerpts from the introduction: