Dana Fast’s non-religious, thoroughly assimilated family didn’t celebrate Hanukkah, even before Germany invaded the country in 1939. Still, they were forced into the horrid conditions of the Warsaw ghetto, as she recounts in her memoir, , cowritten with her daughter, Yvona, and rereleased earlier this year as . At age 11, Dana—then known as Lilka—made a daring escape and lived out the rest of the war under assumed names and identities
