Holocaust Child Lalechka's Story

Product Description A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto by two courageous women. Holocaust Child is an inspirational story of survival. In 1941 at the height of World War II, in a Polish ghetto, a baby girl named Rachel is born. Her parents, Jacob and Zippa, are willing to do anything to keep her alive. They nickname her Lalechka. Just before Lalechka’s first birthday, the Nazis begin to systematically murder everyone in the ghetto. Her father understands that staying in the ghetto will mean certain death for his child. In both desperation and hope, Lalechka’s parents decide to save their daughter, no matter the cost. Zippa smuggles her outside the boundaries of the ghetto where her Polish friends, Irena and Sophia, are waiting. She entrusts their beloved Lalechka to them and returns to the ghetto to remain with her husband and parents – unaware of the fate that awaits her. Irena and Sophia take on the burden of caring for Lalechka during the war, pretending she is part of their family despite the grave danger of being discovered and executed. Holocaust Child is based on the unique journal written by Zippa during the annihilation of the ghetto, as well as on interviews with key figures in the story, rare documents, and authentic letters. It is a story of hope in the face of terror. About the Author Amira Keidar was born in 1963 in a kibbutz in Israel. In 2003, Rachel (Lalechka) gave her long-time friend, Amira's mother, her parents' diary from the Second World War which detailed the horrors and atrocities committed by the Nazis against the Jews in the Polish ghettos. When Amira read the diaries she knew she had to resign from her job as a TV researcher and write Lalechka's story, and in 2007 she travelled to Poland to research the story further.  After 20 years living in various places, Amira now lives with her two daughters in the kibbutz where she was born.