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'HIDE and SEEK' was broadcast in the UK and USA.
It is the only film that tells the story of the Hidden Children
of World War 2 using drama, archive film and 21 interviews with survivors |
'HIDE and SEEK' is available with
Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Polish and Spanish subtitles
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Over 1.5 million children perished in the Holocaust. Unbelievably a few thousand survived in hiding.
They fled from the starvation and deportations of the ghettoes, where many had seen their parents sent to the death camps.
Others were forced to flee from their homes, or were sent to friends for safety |
Parents, realising they were unable to save themselves made frantic last minute arrangements for their children to go into hiding,
often with complete strangers. Many children, some as young as 6, were forced to hide alone. |
Children across Europe were forced to hide in underground sewers, caves and holes in the ground, in cupboards, in attics.
They hid on farms, in convents, labour camps, on the streets or in a room of an occupied apartment |
These children lived in constant fear of being found by Nazis raiding their hiding place, or of being betrayed.
The Germans paid 500 marks for a Jew. Everyday they had to deal with abandonment, starvation, blackmail, imprisonment,
filth and silence.
Some of the hidden children in the film were caught.
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After the war a few of the hidden children found their families and relatives,
but many did not. As they grew up some met relatives of their rescuers who had risked their lives
to hide and care for them. Even today these people are their heroes |
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