Miracle Child The Journey of a Young Holocaust Survivor [Hardcover]

This memoir is about a Jewish baby born in the Krakow ghetto in November 1942, three years after Hitler conquered Poland, and, remarkably, escaping deathone of a mere one half of one percent of Jewish children in Poland who survived during the Nazi era. Her life was saved because her parents hid her with a Catholic family. Just as remarkably, her mother, still alive after suffering terribly through four of Hitlers camps, traveled for weeks back to Poland and found her again. The book also depicts the authors postwar challenges in Germany and America.

Foreword by Michael Berenbaum

Introduction: Before Its Too Late          

Part I: Origins
Chapter 1: In the Shadow of the Shoah        
Chapter 2: Hotter Hells
Chapter 3: Dont Let Her Take Me!

Part II: Closed Doors
Chapter 4: New People, Old Problems
Chapter 5: Living With the Enemy
Chapter 6: In Search of Home

Part III: New World
Chapter 7: Becoming an American
Chapter 8: Falling for a Litvak
Chapter 9: Debts
Chapter 10: New York City Crisis and Beyond

Afterword

Anita Epstein, among the world's younger Holocaust survivors, came to America at seven years old and, in her teens, auditioned twice for the film role of Anne Frank. She later became a lobbyist for education and trade issues. She worries a great deal about what will happen when the last Holocaust survivors, like her, are gone.

Noel Epstein, former Education Editor of The Washington Post, spent more than forty years as a journalist with the Post, the Wall Street Journal and as an independent consultant. He is the editor of Whos In Charge Here? The Tangled Web of School Governance and Policy (Brookings Institution Press, 2004) and author of Language, Ethnicity, and the Schools&nblÓq