Full name: Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood

Author: Nechama Tec Year: 1982 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Memoirs, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780195035001 0195035003

This is the true story of Nechama Tec, whose family found refuge with Polish Christians during the Holocaust. Dry Tears is a dramatic tale of how an eleven-year-old child learned to "pass" in the forbidding Christian world and a quietly moving coming-of-age story. This book is unique celebration of the best human qualities that surface under the worst conditions.