In the early 1990s, Misha Defonseca broke a 50-year silence. She began to tell friends in the Jewish community of Massachusetts of her terrible experiences as a young girl during the Holocaust: stripped of her identity, and ‘Hidden’ in the house of a Catholic family, she decided to run away, walking east across Europe, eating earthworms and insects, befriending wolves, evading the Nazis and living by her wits in search her deported parents. On hearing this incredible account, local publisher Jane Daniel persuaded Misha to write her story as a memoir.

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