Publisher's Synopsis
Lonely Chameleon is the autobiography of Marion Weinzweig, one of the youngest living witnesses to the horrors of the Holocaust. In her desperate effort to save Marion's life, her family "gave" her away to a Christian couple. Just a few days afterwards, the Germans liquidated the Opatow ghetto, forcing her family, loved ones, friends, neighbors-everyone-into cattle cars and on their way to certain death in Treblinka. Marion was safe with the Christian couple only temporarily. Once neighbors grew suspicious of the young child, they snitched to the Germans that they believed the couple was harboring a Jew. Marion was then forced to flee to a convent, masquerading as a Catholic orphan. She spent the next few years there, alone, suffering in frightened silence. Marion shares what her life as an eye-witness testimony to being Jewish during WWII through the eyes of a small child who lived in constant fear, doing whatever possible to fit in and go unnoticed... a little, lonely chameleon.
