Begley, Louis.Wartime Lies. New York: Ivy Books, 1991.
This is the story of Maciek, a nine year old child who was in hiding during the Nazi occupation of his homeland, Poland. His family was quite aware of what was coming; and when all means of escape disappeared, took steps to enable the boy and his Aunt Tania to hide within the country during the Nazi occupation. They hid by posing as non-Jews; although circumstances usually led to the dangerous revelation of the their true identities. They survived, at a high psychological price. While, Maciek never had to endure life in the camps, he and others like him suffered a different nightmare, had to become a different kind of person knowing what had happened to the others and knowing what he did to survive.
[This book was chosen because a people who lived through the occupation by hiding within a community suffered another kind of torture: their Holocaust experience is no less real because they were not imprisoned in Auschwitz, or other concentration camps.]
Maciek speaks of the time:
What about those endless conversations at the dinner table and afterward in Pani Dumont's sitting room? One had to talk, one could not always talk about books, one had to be ready to talk about oneself. Which self? The issue was the limit of one's inventiveness and memory, because the lies had to be consistent--more consistent, according to Tania, than the truth. And they will all be listening, she warned me, don't forget that we are interesting, more interesting than they.