More Children - Holocaust Survivors

CLEM 8, was hiding in a convent when the Nazis burst in and found him. As they were taking him away, to certain death a Bishop shouted,’ If you take him, you take me.’ Clem was terrified, what would the Nazis do?

Kristine 8, was a hidden child for nearly two years, living in a dark sewer, playing with rats. She talks about the risks they had to take to get clean drinking water, despite being surrounded by water, it was filthy water, and what happened when a woman in the sewers gave birth.

Roald 6, hid with his mother for 15 months in a small windowless store room in a school. They huddled in silence, for fear of being found. In 1981 Roald was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry.

Lilli 6, was hidden in the flat of a German civil servant, in the heart of the Nazi district in Lvov. During the day she sat in silence so the so the neighbours wouldn’t know she was there. When the German hiding her had to return to Germany, Lilli explains the extreme risks that were taken to keep her safe.

Jan, 11, was hidden for 2 years, terrified that every knock on the door meant capture. One day his nightmare came true, the knock on the door was the Nazis. Jan tells of the terrible consequences of being found.