Marianna S. (Angeloudi) reviewed on 7/22/2009 + 160 more book reviews

Hidden Child of the Holocaust tells the little told tale of life in the Free Zone (unoccupied southern France) during the German Occupation of WWII. Most of the French citizens were actually collaborators with the pro-Nazi Vichy government, and Jews were routinely rounded up and interned by the Milice, the French militia. Little Ruth Kapp was only 5 when her parents went into hiding to avoid detection and capture by the Nazis. This is a very detailed memoir of those years in hiding, which culminated in her being hidden for 5 months as a "French orphan" at the Convent at Soreze. A moving story and a very fast read.

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