Catherine Bruce Ott, My Hidden Childhood: A Holocaust Memoir

Before Mirjam Stern was old enough to remember what year she was born, her window to the world was darkened by German occupation of her homeland. She was less than five years old when she sensed a shift in the atmosphere of her small rural town in Czechoslovakia. When friends and neighbours were forced to leave, and her family was held at gunpoint by German officers, she knew that life was about to change forever.