The Hidden Girl: The Journey of a Soul [Hardcover]

Marika Henriques was born in Budapest in 1935. During the Holocaust in 1944, separated from her family, she became a hidden child. That being a Jew was shameful and had to be hidden remained deeply etched into her being for decades. Fascism was followed by communism after the war. Persecuted once more, now for her middle class background, she escaped during the Hungarian uprising in 1956. She crossed the border on foot through mine fields in temperatures of minus 25 degrees centigrade. She arrived as a refugee in England and married a Swedish Jew in 1961. In due course she found her vocation and became a Jungian psychotherapist. Jung’s ideas were an integral part of the process of understanding herself and after undergoing psychoanalysis, drawings and poems poured out of her as part of the healing process. The drawings emerged unbidden and were drawn quickly, without fully under-standing what they signified. But over the years she has stitched 19 of them as tapestries. The gentler pace of stitching was all a part of the healing process, and they are woven together with the drawings and poems in the book as she unfolds her story.

"The Hidden Girl: The Journey of a Soulis a charming, poignant account, in prose, verse and images, of how its author, Marika Henriques, became separated from her family in Budapest during the Holocaust when she was nine and how she later fled communism and came to the UK." —The Jewish Chronicle

Marika Henriqueswas born in Budapest in 1935. During the Holocaust in 1944 she became a hidden child. Later, during the Hungarian uprising in 1956, she escaped to England, where she practices as a Jungian psychotherapist. She is an active member of the C.G. Jung Analytical Psychology Club in London and has written numerous articles in various professional journals.