The book Never to Be Forgotten is written by Beatrice Muchman and is an evocative and moving narration of a Jewish childs life in Belgium while it was occupied by the Nazis. Beatrice Muchman and her family had come to Belgium from Germany after Hitlers rise to power. In 1943, when the Nazis began to round up Jews and started sending them to death camps, her parents handed her over to a Catholic woman. Soon her parents were killed and she was brought over to the USA where she was adopted by her uncle and aunt who had managed to escape to America before the outbreak of the war. While growing up, Beatrice developed wrong notions about her parents and their intentions, perhaps because she was too young at that time to have been explained the reasons for her being entrusted to other people for her safety. For several years after she came to the USA, Beatrice was under the bel
ief that her parents had abandoned her and she was always full of anger against them. However, with the occurrence of some fortuitous events whereby she found a collection of letters from her parents along with some related documents amongst the papers that belonged to her uncle, Beatrice, as a fully grown woman, began investigating her past and the circumstances that led her to be sent to America. By brushing through her memories in recollecting past events and by relating to what she had learned from the letters along with the accounts in her diary which she had maintained as a child, Beatrice was able to restructure the details of her childhood years during the Holocaust. Having done this, she fully understood the immense love that her parents had for her and she could feel their pain when they separated from her and sent her away to a safer place fearing for her life.