Hidden Child - Tapa dura

A powerful story of survival, loss, and hope

Isaac was seven when the Germans invaded France and his life
changed forever. First his father was taken away, and then, two
years later, Isaac and his mother were arrested. Hoping to save
Isaac’s life, his mother bribed a guard to take him to safety at a
nearby hospital, where he and many other children pretended
to be sick, with help from the doctors and nurses. But this
proved a temporary haven. As Isaac was shuttled from city to
countryside, experiencing the kindness of strangers, and
sometimes their cruelty, he had to shed his Jewish identity to
become Jean Devolder. But he never forgot who he really was,
and he held on to the hope that after the war he would be
reunited with his parents.

After more than fifty years of keeping his story to himself, Isaac
Millman has broken his silence to tell it in spare prose, vivid
composite paintings, and family photos that survived the war.

ISAAC MILLMAN is the author and illustrator of the critically
acclaimed Moses Goes to a Concert and its sequels. He lives with
his wife in New York City.