The literature about the Holocaust is vast and includes the stories of survivors. While most such memoirs have dealt with experiences in concentration camps, those in this collection are by survivors--children who overcame the Nazi persecution while they were very young. The stories, collected in this book, bubbled up spontaneously, without an interviewer's guidance; hence they represent the most permanent memories of their authors' childhood experiences. The survivors wrote their own stories; hence this book provides a rare vantage point for the reader to look into the diverse lives of...

This is an anthology of personal accounts about seeking freedom and escape from persecution. The majority of the protagonists had survived the Holocaust in Hungary and had written about their wartime experiences as children, and post-war experiences as teenagers in two earlier collections in 1992 and 1998. These are their recollections of escaping from Hungary, the land of their birth -- where they never had real roots - following the 1956 Uprising against communist rule. Most of the storytellers were around twenty years of age and eager to learn the language of their new home and complete...