Only 6% to 11% of Jewish children survived the Holocaust.

Zelda Fuksman was one of them.

Germany invaded her home country of Poland when she was just 4 years old and her family had to flee to the Soviet Union. “War was our first view of reality,” she said. “Still, we were told we were too young to understand.”

The youngest survivors of the Holocaust have often expressed feeling misunderstood or forgotten — as if their accounts were dismissed because of their age, their memories questioned, or their suffering minimized if they survived in hiding or as refugees rather than in camps.

Which is why groups such as the nonprofit Child Survivors/Hidden Children of the Holocaust in Palm Beach County play such a vital role, giving its members a bigger voice for Holocaust education and remembra

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