Trains: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During and After World War II

Miriam Winter
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Trains is the moving account of a hidden child, a lonely girl who survived the Holocaust and escaped the Nazis in World War II Poland by living among strangers and pretending to be a Catholic girl, and who continued to hide her identity, heritage, and history in Communist Poland for two decades after the war ended. Trains is also the inspiring story of a courageous woman finding, facing, and telling the truth about her extraordinary life.
Genres: HolocaustNonfictionMemoirHistoryBiographyBiography MemoirReligion
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