The Lost Childhood

Yehuda Nir was eleven years old when his father was shot dead by Nazi soldiers in a mass execution of Jewish men in their Polish town. As other Jewish families were rounded up for transport to the death camps, Yehuda, along with his mother and teenage sister, escaped with the aid of false documents. Disguised as Catholics, the family plunged into what would be four long, harrowing years of hiding – out in the open.