What's Her Holocaust Tale?

Faye Cukier, was a Polish Jew. She claimed her family lived in Belgium, in a hidden basement apartment, for six years. "I lost my youth while hiding," Cukier said. "I've tried to recapture it through writing my story."


Yet as the Nazis' methods of "weeding out" Jews became more brutal, the Cukiers were forced to go underground. A Belgian family hid them. The family spent years in fear of being discovered -- and in desperation as supplies dwindled and hunger set in.Once, the Gestapo paid a surprise visit to the family hiding in the apartment below. "The father jumped out of the window, and they shot him in mid-air." Then they took the man's wife and daughter away, Faye said.  8