![]() ![]() In the 1940s most of these houses would have been lived in by people of very similar backgrounds. On one of my research trips to Poland I found myself walking down a street in a small town and gazing at the houses. I’d read of many individuals in Nazi-occupied countries who risked their lives and the lives of their families to hide and shelter Jewish fugitives. ![]() That some people are prepared to risk everything to offer friendship and protection to a stranger. ![]() So even as we travelled together on that terrible train journey in the closing chapters, I knew there would be a second book.Īs part of Felix’s continuing story of friendship, I wanted to include an example of something I find truly remarkable. There were too many things I wanted to make part of Felix’s story, and I’d come to accept they wouldn’t all fit into a single book. Which wasn’t very fast.Įven before I finished writing Once I knew I wouldn’t be saying goodbye to Felix and Zelda on the last page. Then we ran for our lives, me and Zelda, up a hillside as fast as we could. ![]()
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