In 1938, a 17-year-old German girl named Rosemarie Marienthal received a letter from a young Jewish doctor living in the Belgian Congo, in the primitive heart of Africa. The young man was a new doctor, and a refugee from his German homeland. Get out of Europe, the doctor pleaded with Rosemarie, before it's too late. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, the Nazis' crushing invasion of Poland, and a world declaration of war, Rosemarie was faced with a decision. What should she do? Follow her heart to this stranger, or wait with her parents for a visa to America? Comes A Little Light is a love story that you will not soon forget, a rare gem of hope amidst this war's tragic ashes.
In 1938, a 17-year-old German girl named Rosemarie Marienthal received a letter from a young Jewish doctor living in the Belgian Congo, in the primitive heart of Africa. The young man was a new doctor, and a refugee from his German homeland. Get out of Europe, the doctor pleaded with Rosemarie, before it's too late. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, the Nazis' crushing invasion of Poland, and a world declaration of war, Rosemarie was faced with a decision. What should she do? Follow her heart to this stranger, or wait with her parents for a visa to America? Comes A Little Light is a love story that you will not soon forget, a rare gem of hope amidst this war's tragic ashes.