The Smallest Hope
It’s up to the bravest young inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto to smuggle food back to their starving loved ones through small holes in the wall, while Nazi guards patrol the walls.
Jack Klajman is only nine years old when the ghetto walls go up in Warsaw. The Smallest Hope is his powerful memoir recounting how he survived by smuggling food from outside the ghetto, and by hiding in a war-torn city among Nazi soldiers. Witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the largest act of Jewish resistance during World War II, Jack escapes only through a combination of bravery and luck.
Praise & Recognition
"After his death, Ed submitted the manuscript to the Azrieli Foundation... The foundation agreed to take on the project, calling 'it is a great story.' They added more research, photos and uncovered more information about his father, Ed said. 'It’s been taken to a whole other level,' he said. 'I am just touched and thrilled and moved that they took this on.' Hernan Tesler-Mabe, co-ordinator of Jewish studies at Huron University College and a Holocaust expert, said ensuring the stories are told of those who experienced the Holocaust is important."
London Free PressDetails
Publication Date: June 6, 2023
Product Format: Default Title
Pages: 244
ISBN: 978-1-998880-05-8
Weight: 200
About the Author
Jack Klajman
Jack (Jankiel) Klajman was born in 1931 in Warsaw, Poland, where he spent the entirety of World War II. After the war, he made his way to England and then to Canada in 1948 through the War Orphans Project, settling in London, Ontario. In 2013, he was featured in the documentary Little Heroes from the Warsaw Ghetto. With his wife, Sonia, he had four children. Jack Klajman passed away in 2019.