Tell No One Who You Are: The Hidden Childhood of Regine Miller [Paperback]

Walter Buchignani (Author), Regine Miller (Contributor)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up

During the days of Nazi terror in Europe, many Jewish children were taken from their families and hidden. Régine Miller was one such child, who left her mother, father, and brother when she was 10 years old. Utterly alone as she is shunted from place to place, told to tell no one she is Jewish, she hears that her mother and brother have been taken by the SS, the German secret police. Only her desperate hope that her father will return sustains her. At war’s end she must learn to live with the terrible truth of “the final solution,” the Nazi’s extermination camps.

The people who sheltered Régine cover a wide spectrum of human types, ranging from callous to kind, fearful to defiant, exploitive to caring. This is a story of a brave girl and an equally brave woman to tell the story so many years later.


From the Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Ten years old when her brother was arrested by Nazis, Miller, a Jewish girl, survived the occupation of Belgium by living under a false identity. In a starred review, PW said that Buchignani recreates Miller's experiences with "aching clarity," conveying "both a human drama and a chilling moment in history." Ages 12-up. (May) r
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From Booklist

Gr. 7-12. R{‚}egine Miller was born in Brussels to parents who had escaped the anti-Semitism of Eastern Europe. She was 10 years old in 1942 when she watched in horror with her mother and father as the Nazis took away her brother with hundreds of other Jewish boys. Determined to save his only remaining child, R{‚}egine's father, a member of the Belgian resistance group Solidarit{‚}e, sent her into hiding. Sustained during the Nazi occupation by her belief that her family would be reunited, R{‚}egine lived with four separate families, only the last of which was kind to her. Her brother and her parents perished in the death camps; Fela Mucha, the Solidarit{‚}e member who maintained contact with R{‚}egine, helped her find surviving relatives at the war's end. Miller and Buchignani met in 1991 at a gathering of Jewish men and women who, as children, had been hidden from the Nazis. The young reporter helped Miller recall the painful details of her experiences. This biography is not only a view of Nazi persecution from a young girl's perspective, but also a sensitive portrayal of her growth, development, and emotional life under the worst of circumstances. It is also the remarkable story of Mucha, who managed to save more than 500 Jewish children. Merri Monks --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Tundra Books (March 2, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0887763030
• ISBN-13: 978-0887763038
• Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 0.6 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,194,487 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #66 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Teens > History & Historical Fiction > Holocaust

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Painfully True, October 17, 2005

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J "J" (New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tell No One Who You Are: The Hidden Childhood of Regine Miller (Paperback)

Regine Millers journey in the second world war, is anything but unrealistic. Losing her brother, then her mother. Her hope for her father is something so powerful, that only people who really connect with this book, feel. Surviving a tragic time, Regine, or known as Augusta for her safety, is an inspirational character. For people of all ages, this book is painfully true and pulls on the heart strings of all types of people. Im 17, and i connected with this book, as if i was living her journey. Well deserved 5 star book!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, Full of Drama and You Can't Put It Down!, October 15, 2004

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BuGgY dUdE (Bookland!) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tell No One Who You Are: The Hidden Childhood of Regine Miller (Paperback)

I HIGHLY recomend this to anyone. It is full of drama, but not to much. Will Regine find her parents? What happened to her Mother? Will she survive in the war? Will the Germans get her? Well, you'll have to find out for yourself, now wo'nt you! Have a great time reading it!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Escaping The Clutches Of Hitler, June 6, 2002

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Tell No One Who You Are: The Hidden Childhood of Regine Miller (School & Library Binding)

Escaping The Clutches Of Hitler,

I liked this book because I enjoy reading about the Holocaust and I always about people who went through the Holocaust. This book is about is different because it is about a girl that hid the whole entire time.
Her name is Regine Miller and she went threw a series of different houses and all different types of them. Regine Miller was born in Brussels to parents who had escaped the anti-Semitism of Eastern Europe. She was 10 years old in 1942. She didn't understand why the Jews were being restricted from bike, certain hours of the day, and the yellow star they had to wear. In the mean time her mom, Mrs. Miller was getting sicker and they, at the time, didn't know what from. Regine was one of the best writers in the grade. She loved to write. As the war progressed her father, Maurice Miller, heard that the Nazis were deporting Jews but he would not leave his wife, since she could barely walk. One day a nock came from the door. Mr. Miller went to answer it and there was a messenger there and he had a message that read that his son, Leon Miller, was to report to the rail road station Mr. Miller ignored the notice and shoved the messenger down the stairs the next day the same messenger came again and again it said he had to report to the rail road station but this time it also said if he didn't the Nazis would take and kill there whole entire family. So they decided to that they had to make him go. They never saw him again.
Her father at that point decided that it was not safe here for Regine. So he arranged for her to go and live with some one in Brussels. Her name was Madame Andre, she did not let Regine do anything she could not go out side nor talk to any one her father came once every three weeks. Her father suddenly stopped coming then her aunt came to drop off the money then a girl named Nicole started coming. Regine lived there for about one year and about a month before she left Madame Andre got extremely worried that she would become caught so she arranged with a lady called Nicole to move Regine.
She went to a new family just about 30 miles away there she was made to work and she ended up with calluses and injured hands. When Nicole found out she immediately moved Regine to a different home.
This new house she stayed with a couple that did not have any kids and they were Catholic!!!!!!!!!! This is a problem she is Jewish and they are Catholic how is she not to let them know she is not Jewish. Regine had no idea how she was going to pull this off. She tried to copy every thing they did they were a nice couple that treated Regine like their own. Regine did not know anything about being catholic. They asked her many questions like are you baptized? , Where are your parents? They finally realized she was Jewish but did not mention it and kept her there at their home and did seem to care.
Finally Regine went and looked for any survivors of her family and found only her uncle she has only seen once in her entire life.