Linking religion and family: memories of children hidden in Belgian convents during the Holocaust

Describes how Jewish children hidden in Belgian Roman Catholic convents did not know what to make of their experiences until much later. They were silent until a film made in 1979 by one of their children and then an international gathering in 1991 of children hidden during WWII prompted them to speak about their experience. Their silence was partially because they tried to suppress the horrors of the recent past and looked to the future, and a consequence of their particular experiences of being regarded as marginal to the Holocaust. Hidden children had long felt that they couldn't claim to be Holocaust survivors rather they had escaped and were among the 'lucky ones'.