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As Eva Marx writes in her memoir, One of the Lucky Ones, Almost 1.6 million children were living in Europe at the start of World War II. By the end of the war, less than 500,000 had survived. She and Judy Abrams, author of Tenuous Threads, were born just six months apart--Judy in Hungary and Eva in Czechoslovakia--two years before World War II began. Their childhoods were irrevocably marked by the Holocaust and their memoirs are evocative accounts of this fragmented and fearful period in their young lives. Separated at times from their parents, the two authors poignantly describe the insecurities they lived with as hidden children and, as adults, explore the role that memory, innocence and, in hindsight, knowledge, has played in their lives.

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Judy Abrams, born in Budapest, Hungary on April 28, 1937, immigrated to Montreal in 1949, where she later taught French. She taught at the International School in New York City from 1972 until her retirement in 2002. She has two sons and one grandson and divides her time between Montreal and New York. In 2009, she co-edited Remember Us: A Collection of Memories from the Hungarian Hidden Children of the Holocaust. Eva Marx was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia on October 21, 1937. Her family left Communist Czechoslovakia in 1949 and also immigrated to Montreal, where she later became an elementary school teacher. Eva has two children and four grandchildren. She and her husband, retired Quebec Superior Court Justice Herbert Marx, live in Montreal.

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