Isaac Millman (M / France, 1933), Holocaust survivor
Isaac Millman (M / France, 1933), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS : <France> <Hidden Children> -- <United States>
- MEMOIRS : Hidden Child (2005)
Biography
Isaac Millman was born in France in 1933 and was a hidden child during the German occupation of France during the Second World War. Both his mother and father were deported to Auschwitz where they were killed. He left for America in 1948, a teenager, when he was adopted by an American Jewish family in Brooklyn, NY. He graduated from the Pratt Institute in 1952 with a degree in fine arts and worked as senior art director for a large sales promotion agency. He is the author and illustrator of the four Moses books, the author and illustrator of “Hidden Child” and “Arbeit Macht Frei - Work Sets You Free,” as well as the illustrator of the Howie Bowles books by Kate Banks. He lives with his wife in New York City. They have two sons and four grandsons.
Book : Hidden Child (2005)
- Isaac Millman, Hidden Child (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005).
"A powerful story of survival, loss, and hope ... Isaac was seven when the Germans invaded France and his life changed forever. First his father was taken away, and then, two years later, Isaac and his mother were arrested. Hoping to save Isaac’s life, his mother bribed a guard to take him to safety at a nearby hospital, where he and many other children pretended to be sick, with help from the doctors and nurses. But this proved a temporary haven. As Isaac was shuttled from city to countryside, experiencing the kindness of strangers, and sometimes their cruelty, he had to shed his Jewish identity to become Jean Devolder. But he never forgot who he really was, and he held on to the hope that after the war he would be reunited with his parents ... After more than fifty years of keeping his story to himself, Isaac Millman has broken his silence to tell it in spare prose, vivid composite paintings, and family photos that survived the war."--Publisher description.