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Publisher's Note: The autumn of 1938 was cold in Berlin and Marianne Kohn's world had already begun to crumble. First came the burning of neighborhood shops. Then her father, a mild, good-natured bookseller, was forced to leave his family and live in hiding. Marianne was no longer allowed to go to school, to a cafe, or even to sit on a park bench. The noose around Germany's Jews was growing tighter and tighter. The most important person in Marianne's life was her mother. The two shared secrets, a quirky world view, and the thousands of jokes and habits that bind families together. Mrs. Kohn's work in the orphanage took her away from home for long hours and Marianne was forced to find ways to spend the long hours alone without school or friends. But even such a perilous situation could grow worse. What would be the price of Marianne's survival? Irene Watts was only seven years old in 1938. Her mother was frantic to get her out of Germany and managed to send her to England and to safety on a kindertransporte. Irene Watts never saw her family again. First presented as a successful play, Good-bye Marianne is a poignant and heartbreaking story of one child's journey on the road to survival.