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Hidden
"Faiga and Luzer Rosenbluth's mother and father and two little sisters were among the Jews herded into Kanczuga's synagogue that day - but the family had managed to hide the two older children. Hidden is Faiga and Luzer's story, told with an intimacy and quiet particularity that make the incomprehensible enormity of the Holocaust immediate, human, and devastatingly real.". "In alternating first-person narratives, this memoir takes readers into the siblings' very different but inextricably linked experiences in Nazi-occupied Poland. Faiga, whose fine appearance once marked her as a dignified young lady from a good home with servants and a seat by the eastern wall of the synagogue, spends two years wandering the perilous countryside, wearing a Christian name and shabby clothing, hoping to be taken for a peasant. Mere miles away, knowing nothing of his sister's fate, Luzer, the leather...
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