The Hidden Children: The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust

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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.

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"These individuals' stories remind us that humans can survive the vilest adversity, and go on to live lives that are wholesome and good."

-- Detroit Free Press



"A stirring saga of courage...The Hidden Children prodigiously helps us to remember what we dare not forget."

-- Jewish Sentinel

"Powerful and gripping...In the literature of the Holocaust, Marks has added a remarkable contribution."

-- Booklist

"Remarkable and moving."

-- Houston Chronicle

Author Bio

Jane Marks is an author and journalist whose article in New York magazine became the basis for her book, Hidden Children- The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust. Marks wrote Hidden Children "to leave a lasting record how these children lived in hiding; to make the world aware of the exceptional courage and goodness that emerged in the midst of unspeakable tragedy."