The story of the generation of hidden child survivors told through the true experiences of three Jewish girlsfrom Poland Holland and Francewho transcended their traumatic childhoods to lead remarkable lives in AmericaOnly one in ten Jewish children in Europe survived the Holocaust many in hiding In Such Good Girls R D Rosen tells the story of these survivors through the true experiences of three girlsSophie Turner-Zaretsky who spent the war years believing she was an anti-Semitic Catholic schoolgirl eventually became an esteemed radiation oncologist Flora Hogman protected by a succession of Christians emerged from the war a lonely lost orphan but became a psychologist who pioneered the study of hidden child survivors Unlike Anne Frank Carla Lessing made it through the war concealed with her family in the home of Dutch strangers before becoming a psychotherapist and key player in the creation of an international organization of hidden child survivorsIn braiding the stories of three women who defied death by learning to be such good girls Rosen examines a silent and silenced generationthe last living cohort of Holocaust survivors He provides rich memorable portraits of a handful of hunted children who as adults were determined to deny Hitler any more victories and he recreates the extraordinary event that lured so many hidden child survivors out of their grown-up hiding places and finally brought them together.
