Hiding Edith: A True Story (The Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers 2006, 8)

Hiding Edith is the gripping true story of Edith Schwalb, a young Jewish girl forced to go into hiding in France during World War II. After fleeing their home in Austria to escape the Nazis, Edith's family is eventually separated for their safety. Edith is taken to the village of Moissac, where she lives in a secret home for Jewish children run by the courageous Shatta and Bouli Simon. The townspeople of Moissac work together to protect the children, moving them and hiding their identities whenever the authorities close in. This biography chronicles Edith’s journey through various hiding places and highlights the extraordinary bravery of the French resistance and ordinary citizens who risked their lives to ensure that not a single child in Moissac was ever captured by the Nazis.

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