Behind the Walls: The Story of a Young Girl's Spiritual and Physical Survival During the War Years
- ISBN-10
- 1583308792
- ISBN-13
- 9781583308790
- Series
- Behind the Walls
- Category
- Belgium
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Feldheim Publishers
- Author
- Miriam Cohen
Description
An account of the Holocaust experiences of Chanah Kaufman (née Zucker), born in 1929 to an Orthodox Jewish family, related from the viewpoint of the young girl that she was at the time. In Brussels, her parents paid a non-Jew to hide Chanah in her basement. Subsequently she was taken to the Misericorde convent in Leuven, where she and other Jewish girls were hidden throughout the war. The nuns pressured her to convert, convincing her that otherwise the Nazis might kill her along with those who gave her shelter. However, inwardly she always remained Jewish. When the war ended, the nuns did not inform their wards, hoping that the Jewish children they saved would remain Catholics. Chanah was eventually taken to a Jewish orphanage, the Tiefenbrunner Home. Her parents and brother did not survive. She immigrated to Israel after the war. An appendix on pp. 322-344 discusses the role of the general and Jewish undergrounds in Belgium in hiding Jewish children and returning them to their people after the war.
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