Children Without Tears – Judit Mitro

Children without Tears is an original and poignant memoir that sheds light Judit Mitro’s extraordinary life. Brutally honest and showing great insight, she examines the people she meets and events that take place in an era conflicted by political and historical upheaval.

It is a deeply personal odyssey in which Judit explores her half-Jewish and half-Romani background, searching for answers relating to her identity. Spending her formative years in a communist-run orphanage in Hungary after World War II, Judit is forced to use all her resources to discover was is entailed in survival.

Fear, trepidation, but also anticipation and excitement, move this epic story forward, but the end result is a testament to a child who had to deal with a world that was anything but ordinary. The reader will reflect on this account long after finishing the last page.

Sydney Jewish Museum Community Stories 2017, paperback