Malwina Klonicki

I would recommend this book only for Holocaust scholars/junkies: to the average reader it wouldn't hold much interest. It's the diary of Aryeh Klonicki, a Jew hiding with his wife in Ukraine during World War II. They'd given their baby son, Adam, to a Christian family for safekeeping.

In many respects this is a typical diary: Aryeh writes of persecution and anguishes over the fate of his people and his own family. Especially poignant, I found, were the letters in the back of the book. After the war, Aryeh's relatives in Israel wrote to various people trying to find Adam. Eventually they found out he had survived the war and was alive and well, but he considered himself to be Ukrainian, was embarrassed to have Jewish relatives, and wanted nothing to do with them.… (más)