On Sunny Days We Sang: A Holocaust Story of Survival and Resilience

Author: Jeanette Grunhaus de Gelman

When the Germans marched into their little Polish shtetl—a predominantly Jewish small town—at the start of World War II, the Jews of Włodawa saw their lives abruptly torn apart. For Hil and Alexandra, it marked the beginning of a struggle to survive, during which they experienced ghettos and roundups. They also needed to use hiding places and false identities—a struggle where the line between life and death depended on every small decision made along the way.

With the destruction of Polish Jewry as a backdrop, Jeannette Grunhaus de Gelman tells us the remarkable tale of her parents’ journey through the dark years of Europe at war and how they built a new life in Venezuela.

Paperback

208 pages