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The Hidden Children : The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust

The Hidden Children : The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust Paperback - 1995

by Jane Marks

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In riveting first-person accounts, twenty-three adult survivors share the memories many had long supressed--how they lived in constant danger of discovery, fabricated new identities, and risked life, health and sanity to escape Nazi torture. Here, too, is how they grew, battled the guilt of surviving, and found the spirit to love and to heal.

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Random House Publishing Group, 1995. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title The Hidden Children : The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust
  • Author Jane Marks
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House Publishing Group, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date 1995
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0449906868I3N00
  • ISBN 9780449906866 / 0449906868
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.58 x 6.22 x 0.82 in (21.79 x 15.80 x 2.08 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Theometrics: Catholic
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94094573
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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From the jacket flap

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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Media reviews

"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

Citations

  • Booklist, 11/01/1993, Page 501

About the author

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."