Six-year-old Stefan's life is turned upside down when the orphanage he lives in is ransacked by the Nazis. Everything as he knows it is about to change forever.

CHAPTER ONE: The Night of Broken Glass

A SYNOPSIS OF ‘FROM THE WOLF’S DEN’ BY KIRSTY CAMPBELL: Stefan Gundelach, a six-year-old Jewish boy, is forced to flee from Berlin, Germany after SS officers destroy the orphanage he resides in during Kristallnacht. With very few other options, Stefan is sent via the Kindertransport scheme to Britain where he enrols in the Grimley Institute For Boys, a boarding school situated in Gravesend, Kent. Having left his father-figure, Frank Falkenberg, and his best friend, Jens Wintermeyer, behind, Stefan struggles to adapt to British life and is left feeling isolated and alone as a result. Stefan is thrown into turmoil after meeting the school’s mysterious and malevolent headmaster, Ebenezer Finch, who doesn’t hold back his disapproval towards the young boy; simply because he is of German and Jewish heritage. Finch, along with two of his students, make Stefan’s life a misery, and when a classmate vanishes in extremely suspicious circumstances, the truth about what is really go…

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CHAPTER ONE: The Night of Broken Glass

CHAPTER ONE: The Night of Broken Glass