“This child was hidden in a Christian monastery of some sort, and several of the children had died. And she watched them being buried. And then she herself, played with her dolls in that way of burying them. And it was part of her life. That’s what she saw. And that’s how she played. And when her father came on a bicycle and got her and took her back to his wife, that’s how she played with her dolls. And some people did not recognize that they were survivors. They thought, because they lived in an orphanage, that they were spared the Holocaust, but they weren’t.”
-Sarah Traister