Lost Childhood

You toss a ball in the yard, play shooter games on a computer, watch superhero movies, sleep peacefully in a warm bed—and you don’t even suspect what it’s like to live during wartime, in fear and hunger.

These are stories from the lives of boys and girls who became orphans in besieged Leningrad, ended up in a concentration camp, starved, survived, protected their mothers and sisters, and grew up early. War left them no time for childhood.