74 The Australian Women’s Weekly | OCTOBER 2019
Exclusive
As Hitler’s troops advanced on Czechoslovakia, a Jewish couple made a
heartbreaking decision that saved their eight-year-old son’s life but changed
their family forever. Juliet Rieden’s powerful and shocking memoir
uncovers a personal Holocaust tragedy of epic proportions.
survived the
Holocaust
How one boy, my father,
CLOCKWISE FROM RIGHT:
My father’s uncle Felix’s
registration card shows the
transport to his death; Dad
skiing aged six or seven; the
gates of Auschwitz I.