Stolen Children
By Gitta Sereny
The Nazis took 250,000 children from their families, intent on"Germanizing" them.
After the war, author Gitta Sereny tried to help them find their way home.
Although I know the year was 1946, I cannot remember the date I met the first two stolen children in postwar Germany. It is dating the events of one's life that is most difficult. We recall the look of houses, of rooms, of landscapes, colors, and we remember faces, voices, movements, temperatures, and feelings, but more often than not it is impossible to put a day, a month, sometimes even a year to these memories.