NARRATOR Of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, 1.5 million were children. Even as they entered the gas chambers, many Jewish mothers and fathers would—in their final gesture—embrace their children and utter words of comfort and love. Another kind of courage was exhibited by Jewish parents who sought whatever means were available to shield their children from deportation. Survivor Lea Krell Weems: “How brave they were and how unselfish. They gave my sister and me to this strange underground agency because they promised they would take care of us.” NARRATOR As the threat of deportation loomed, some parents handed their children to others to hide. The people who took the children did so at great risk to themselves. Discovery of hidden children would be a guaranteed ticket to the camps. The hidden children were sometimes kept in concealed places—out of sight. Others would be hidden in plain sight—at orphanages or disguised as members of Christian families. Some children—like survivor Morris I. Penn—were forced to fend for themselves after their families was deported or murdered. Morris I. Penn: “I can tell you when I used to stay in hiding by myself. You can run crazy, a whole day. Or in the barn was a little better because I used to walk around and around until I used to get dizzy. But many times I felt, I wish, I wish I could cry a little. We couldn’t cry. There were no tears, and many times, of course, I wished I wouldn’t wake up; but then there were times I thought maybe I’m the only one in hiding, and the Jewish people, the world won’t know what they did to us, so I got to keep on. I got to go on.” NARRATOR The tiny dress belonged to survivor Chaja Verveer, who—taken from her parents at the age of one—cycled through hiding, name changes, camp orphanages, and liberation. She was reunited with her mother and brothers later, but trauma haunted them all: “In the fairy tales everybody gets together and we live happily ever after and everybody loves each other and it’s the closest of families and the warmest of relationships. Unfortunately, in reality you have to consider that everybody was traumatized. When we came together, we all needed attention, every single one of us . . . and there was only that much attention that can go around.”