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Based on interviews and library research, Sara’s Children records the remarkable true story of five siblings — Polish Jews — who survived Nazi Germany's death camps.
Author Suzan E. Hagstrom met one of the siblings while working as a news reporter for The Orlando Sentinel in Florida. In 1990, she was writing a comprehensive Sunday magazine feature about the Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Central Florida and learned about the astonishing personal history of Helen Garfinkel Greenspun, a museum volunteer.
Not only Helen but also her brother and three sisters survived several years in ammunition factories where they were exploited as slave labor, transfer to worse concentration camps in Germany and a death march the final month of World War II.