Bibliograph

Traces of what was, Steve Rotschild-Galerkin

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Traces of what was, Steve Rotschild-Galerkin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Traces of what was

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Steve Rotschild-Galerkin

Series statement

The Azrieli series of Holocaust survivor memories, 6

Summary

“How many Jewish children did they take to be destroyed, their worth unknown? The boy on the landing might have been a great painter. But I never saw him again.” In the fall of 1943, Steve Rotschild and the other children are free to roam the passages and stairwells of the HKP labour camp in Vilna while their parents work. As a game, they construct a secret hiding place from the Germans. In March 1944, it saves all their lives during the Kinderaktion: the roundup of Jewish children who had to be fed but were of no use to the German war effort. The children’s games, Rotschild writes, “were games of survival. The winner lived.”

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