This child should live.

Author: Helena Holczman
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Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: This is an autobiographicalliterary work where the author narrates her life during the German fascist occupation of Lithuania (1941-1944) and exposes the crimes of the Nazis in persecuting Jews. After her husband and eldest daughter were killed, Helena Holczman obtained poison from a doctor and carried it with her at all times, prepared to commit suicide with her younger daughter Margaret if captured by the Nazis. With the help of several kind-hearted Soviet women, the mother and daughter were fortunate enough to avoid capture. Under German law at the time, as the wife of a Jew, Helena was also considered Jewish and faced the constant risk of being sent to a concentration camp. She went to great lengths to protect her young daughter and, together with several Soviet women, rescued some Jewish children from the German-blockaded Jewish residential area.