
By Lola Rein Kaufman, Lois Metzger
A girl hides from Nazis, clinging to hope and a cherished dress.
Lola, a Jewish girl, faces the terror of the Holocaust after her mother's death. Forced into hiding, she moves from a Ukrainian woman's home to a dirt hole beneath a barn. With only a dress embroidered by her mother, Lola battles cold, hunger, and the constant threat of discovery. Can she find safety and freedom in a world that has taken everything from her?
A gripping tale of one young girl’s struggle to survive during the Holocaust. When her mother is killed by the Gestapo, a Jewish girl named Lola is sent into hiding. At first, Lola secretly lives in the home of a Ukrainian woman. But when someone threatens to expose her to the Nazis, Lola must flee again, this time hiding with another family in a dirt hole beneath a barn.Struggling against cold and hunger, the hidden family lives under the constant threat of discovery. Lola has lost everything–her home and her family. All she has left is one article of clothing, a dress lovingly embroidered by her mother. Will Lola ever find safety–or freedom?
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