The Polish Jew Stefan Jerzy Zweig Was One of just over 900 children whom American forces liberated at Buchenwald concentration camp on 11 April 1945. Up until that point, his entire short life had been spent in Nazi captivity: born in the Cracow ghetto on 28 January 1941, he survived incarceration in a series of Nazi camps in Poland before being transported to Buchenwald in the late summer of 1944. Without the perseverance, imagination, and resourcefulness of his father, Zacharias, Stefan would never have survived; at Buchenwald, a number of other prisoners, notably communists, were also involved in his rescue. This book, for the most part, is about the story of this rescue as it was told in the German Democratic Republic (1949–90); the final chapter considers changes in the telling of the rescue story since 1990. It is, therefore, not in first instance a book about the rescue itself. The opening chapter does provide an overview of Zacharias's report of his son's rescue, and it examines other sources that also shed light on the circumstances of that rescue; all later representations need to be measured for their accuracy against these facts. But by and large this is a monograph about the way the rescue of Stefan at Buchenwald was remembered. While the diary of Anne Frank was well known in the GDR, it did not have the significance it did in the West. In East Germany, it was the story of Stefan Jerzy Zweig, filtered through a variety of media and usually seen through a communist lens, that captured the public imagination more. In contrast to Anne Frank, Stefan Zweig survived the Holocaust; the story of Stefan Zweig's experience under Nazism as narrated in the GDR was one that emphasized its happy ending. It was also one that foregrounded not Jewish suffering or German perpetration but the travails and the courage of a particular set of German victims, namely the communist inmates of Buchenwald.