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Hidden Child, an evening with author Evi BlaikieA hidden child herself, Evi Blaikie is reading from her recent book and interviewed by Kaci Ruh Paquette.
DATE: Thursday, January 25th, 2006, 7pm
PLACE: Hungarian Cultural Center, 447 Broadway, 5th Floor, NYC |  |
| Though Anne Frank is certainly the most famous of so-called “Hidden Children”
she is by no means alone. Many Jewish children who lived in Europe
during World War II were placed in hiding to escape being the fate of the
concentration camp. Shunted around from place to place, forced to adopt new
identities, often separated from their families or living in foreign countries,
Hidden Children quickly lost their innocence and fought simply to survive.
Although these children avoided capture and murder, many of their family
members did not, and their experiences marked them for life, leaving them to
struggle with feelings of abandonment, confusion, and displacement.
Evi Blaikie was born in 1939 in Paris to passionate and intelligent Hungarian immigrant parents. Shortly after the Germans invaded France, Evi was separated from her mother and sent to Hungary where she would live a secret life until the war’s end. Eventually reunited with her mother, Evi would survive the war and the chaos of post-World War II Europe, but not without tremendous cost. In her deeply personal memoir Magda’s Daughter: A Hidden Child’s Journey Home, Blaikie tells her unique survivor’s tale, weaving through memories of the Holocaust and its aftermath while exploring her own journey to finally embrace her true sense of home and self. On Thursday January 25th the Hungarian Cultural Center is pleased to host a discussion with Ms. Blaikie, led by Kaci Ruh Paquette. About Evi Blaikie: Evi Blaikie is co-founder of the Hungarian Hidden Children Group, and advocate and member of the Hidden Child Foundation of the Anti-Defamation League. She lives and writes in New York City.
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