Raking Light from Ashes (Heroic Children of World War II)

A young girl holding a false identity. two families. and an incredible tale of survival…

Relli, a Jewish girl in Poland, was denied a normal childhood.

When Relli was just a baby, the Nazis occupied Poland and she, together with her parents, were imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto, a way station before death.

Her parents correctly assessed the new situation and decided to act heroically in order to save their only child. They succeeded in smuggling her out of the Ghetto and entrusted her to a Gentile Polish couple who agreed to hide her for the duration of the war under a false identity.

Overnight, Relli became Lala.

Yet hope did not remain alive for long.

Destruction and devastation engulfed Poland and soon little Lala was forced to escape and hide along with her new parents, merely to survive.

This is the amazing story of Relli Robinson, who, thanks to kindhearted, courageous people and a tenacious capacity for survival, was able to get through the most difficult times in the history of humankind. An orphan girl, the sole survivor of her entire family.