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For some historical events our only sources are the memories and recollections of the people who experienced them. Such narratives are among the most affected by time, forgetting and selection. It was Diana Wolf’s only option to use personal memories as the main sources for her excellent research on the numerous unknown children who lived in hiding during the Second World War. Actually, hiding is not the right word since, unlike Anne Frank, most of them openly lived with their foster parents. Young children did not need papers, and it was easy to explain that a child had to leave town to get extra food, or to enjoy the fresh air in the countryside. Girls were the easiest to place, especially small girls. In the last decades, historians have gradually realized that a rather large group of children survived the Holocaust. They were often traumatized by hiding their identity, and after the war they frequently ended up in quarrels between their original parents, who wanted them back, and their foster parents, who had acted as real parents and who had come to love them. Some who had saved the children wanted to continue in this role by giving them a proper Christian education. In some orthodox Protestant families, Jews were regarded as sinners whose immortal souls needed to be saved