Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain Blog

27 Jul 2020, 4–5pm BST, online event: Debra Barnes talks about her debut novel, The Young Survivors  What if everyone you loved was suddenly taken away? Five siblings struggle to stay together as the tides of war threaten to tear them apart. When Germany invades and occupies France in the Second World War, the five Laskowski children lose everything: their home, their Jewish community and most devastatingly their parents who are abducted in the night. There is no safe place left for them to evade the Nazis, but they cling together, never certain when the authorities will come for what is left of them. Inspired by the childhood of the author’s mother, this moving historical novel conveys the hardship, the uncertainty and the impossible choices the Laskowski children were forced to make to survive the horrors of the Holocaust. ​Debra joined The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) in 2017 to work on the My Story project. This initiative produces individual life-story book...