The Hidden Children: The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust

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.