“Children escaped through holes in the ghetto walls and were hidden by Polish families. If the Germans found out, they’d sometimes shoot the family’s own children and leave the Jewish children with them for a few weeks as a lesson.” Read about two Holocaust survivors, German Jewish newlyweds sent to America by their parents to have children to “save our people,” in One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.
Courageous Polish families hid Jewish children at their own peril
Jewish newlyweds flee Germany for Brooklyn on the eve of the Nazi slaughter