The Hidden Children: The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780449906866)

They hid wherever they could for as long as it took the Allies to win the war -- Jewish children, frightened, alone, often separated from their families. For months, even years, they faced the constant danger of discovery, fabricating new identities at a young age, sacrificing their childhoods to save their lives. These secret survivors have suppressed these painful memories for decades. Now, in The Hidden Children, twenty-three adult survivors share their moving wartime experiences -- some for the first time.

There is Rosa, who hid in an impoverished one-room farmhouse with three others, sleeping on a clay pallet behind a stove; Renee, who posed as a Catholic and was kept in a convent by nuns who knew her secret; and Richard, who lived in a closet with his family for thirteen months. Their personal stories of belief and determination give a voice, at last, to the forgotten. Inspiring and life-affirming, The Hidden Children is an unparalleled document of witness, discovery, and the miracle of human courage.

Author: Jane Marks
ISBN-10: 0449906868
ISBN-13: 9780449906866
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/14/1995
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.58h x 6.22w x 0.82d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/01/1993 pg. 501