Emphasis Preaching Journal

Yaffa Eliach grew up a Jew in Lithuania. When the Germans moved in and occupied the shtetl in which Yaffa was raised, her carefree childhood was over. As the Nazi juggernaut tightened over the Jewish occupants, it became necessary to hide. Instead of splitting his family by sending his children away to safety, Yaffa's father decided to keep the family together in hiding. They hid variously in a carriage house, in a cave under a pigsty, and in the home of a Catholic friend. Children were often not welcome in the hiding places as they posed a danger to those inside.