The urgency for Kurt and Hennie Reiner to escape Vienna accelerates when Kurt is imprisoned in Dachau. He is released but threatened with certain arrest unless a legal way is discovered to exit occupied Austria. As the couple seek safe haven and scramble to obtain visas, they are conscripted for work at Fischamend, an SS monitored farm labor camp. Counting on America is told in the first-person, an engaging format that emotionally transports the reader into the Holocaust scenarios experienced by Kurt and Hennie Reiner. Historical context interspersed throughout the memoir supports the tale and provides an educated perspective of the Holocaust. The book delivers a compelling message not only about the dangers of racial hatred and anti-Semitism, but the importance of America to refugees fleeing despot nations in pursuit of religious tolerance and freedom.