Hiding In Plain Sight: A Memoir of Surviving the Holocaust

Allan Hall was born in Cracow, Poland in 1935. He led a charmed life until September 1939, when Nazis marched into Poland. Seeking safety, the family walked over two hundred miles to Lvov, where Allan was the first child picked up in the children’s pogrom in the Lvov Ghetto. With false identity papers, the family fled to Warsaw, where Allan and his mother were arrested and taken to the train station to be sent to Treblinka. When the trains briefly stopped running, Allan was marched to an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto. Allan’s father, passing as Aryan, rented an office in a high-rise building which housed German Air Force headquarters, where they hid for two years. When the war ended, Allan’s father was arrested, and his mother sent Allan with his baby brother to make his way to Palestine. Hunted by the Soviets for months, eleven-year-old Allan bravely made his way across Europe.