It is the summer of 1941, and Malka is ten years old. Her small town of Romanov, Ukraine, has just been occupied by the Nazis, and Malka’s Jewish traditions, culture and community are under attack. Malka and her mother manage to escape, hiding in fields, forests and haylofts as danger forces them to continue moving. As Malka relies on her faith and instincts to keep herself and her mother alive, she finds them refuge with strangers who become like family along the way.

Malka Pischanitskaya was born in Romaniv, Ukraine, in 1931. She returned to her hometown after it was liberated in 1944 and lived there until 1950. In 1954, Malka earned her high school teaching diploma from Ivan Franko State University in Zhytomyr. She immigrated to Canada in 1975 and lives in Vancouver.

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Nina Krieger is the Executive Director of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre. She holds an honors degree in history from the University of British Columbia and a Master of Research degree in Humanities and Cultural Studies from the London Consortium. Nina Krieger is a member of the Canadian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

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Dr. Nataliia Ivchyk is a Holocaust scholar in the fields of public history and memory politics. She is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Rivne State University of Humanities (Ukraine). Dr. Ivchyk is co-founder and project manager of the NGO Mnemonics.

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