Ann Shore / Hania Goldman (F / Poland, 1929)

Ann Shore / Hania Goldman (F / Poland, 1929)

• <Hidden Children> -- <DP Camps>
• <Memoirs> "After the Holocaust", by Howard Greenfeld

NOTES : Ann Shore, born Hania Goldman on April 13, 1929 in Zabro Poland. On March 10, 1942 30 Jews were taken from their homes, lined up on a brick wall, and shot. That evening the Nazi forced there way into Ann's family home and shot her father. that night Ann, and her mother and sister fled town seeking a place to hide. The mother remembered a poor Widow out side of town, what first turned them down, but was bribed into giving them shelter in her loft way here hay loft.

Ann and her family lived in the loft for over a years, with barley anything to eat and only one lice infested blanket to cover them with. They could never leave the loft except at night to scavenge for food , and mother and sister became so ill they didn't leave the loft at all. When the brother-in-law came home from the war he made them leave the loft, and they were forced to find a place to hide until the liberation.

Ann was not tens of thousands of what is referred to as the Hidden Children of the war. Children who were often times then not, all alone in the world to either remain completely hidden for years, or assumed the the identity of others so they would not be killed.

Ann was liberated with her mother and sister in January 1945.