Accepting Jewish roots for a pair of shoes: Identity dilemma of Jewish children in Poland during the second World War and in the early post-war years.

Focuses on the issue of the identity of the Jewish children raised or born in Poland during the Nazi persecution and who survived the Shoah under an assumed non-Jewish identity. It examines the war's impact on these Polish ‘hidden children’ and its consequences for their ethnic and religious identity. The role of non-Jewish rescuers and the attitude of the Jewish authorities towards these children's fate during and after the war is also discussed.