Trains: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During and After World War 2

Trains is the moving account of a hidden child, a lonely girl who survived the Holocaust and escaped the Nazis in World War II Poland by living among strangers and pretending to be a Catholic girl, and who continued to hide her identity, heritage, and history in Communist Poland for two decades after the war ended. Trains is also the inspiring story of a courageous woman finding, facing, and telling the truth about her extraordinary life.

"Trains is a haunting and insightful memoir. Miriam Winter reveals the terror and lasting impact of her childhood experience."—Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones

"The combination of terror and yearning during the war, and of the need to remember and the need to forget afterwards, are exquisitely conveyed...Trains is one of the very few memoirs that describes a Jewish child's experiences in Poland during the period immediately following the Holocaust for this child, years still dominated by the need for multiple identities and thus provides access to much that we have not heard before. As someone who has been teaching and writing about survivors' experiences for many years, I am very grateful to have this exceptional memoir to use in my courses."—Hank Greenspan, University of Michigan. Author of On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Recounting and Life History