Daniel's Story recounts the harrowing journey of a Jewish family, starting in Frankfurt, Germany in 1933 and ending in Lodz, Poland in 1945. The narrator, Daniel, who is both German and Jewish, is only six years old when their ordeal begins and is a weary eighteen by its end. Through Daniel's perspective, readers witness the increasing anti-Semitism in Germany, a mounting hatred that ultimately leads to the Nazis' creation and horrific operation of the death camps.