Will I love Once We Were Home?

Once We Were Home tells the stories of Jewish children who were taken from their families during World War II and placed into hiding with Christian families and institutions.

Their stories were both heartbreaking and heartwarming. I cried, I laughed, and I worried. I grieved as they discovered their lost connections and mourned the death of their families, and I celebrated as they grew into their adult lives with greater self-understanding and compassion.

This book inspired by true stories of children misplaced and stolen during World War II.

This is a deeply affecting and powerful novel on the intertwined stories of four displaced children after the war ended, who have to question their true identities.

There is great tenderness in the writing of Jennifer Rosner, where a child wonders if bats have upside-down dreams and a young woman discovers the emotional depth of photography.

"There is a moment, liquid time, just before photograph's image appears on the developing paper, when Ana conjures the faces of her parents. Their actual features have blurred… show more.