Among those rounded up and killed were Piechowski's childhood friends, and the teenager was terrified.
OH Idea: Breeding sweet potatoes to contain betacarotene, to help in the fight against childhood blindness.
To my horror, I realised that I was inadvertently hearing the truth about a vast conspiracy that had dogged me throughout my childhood.
It's a chance to lose yourself in the pleasures of childhood escapades - dirt, occasional nudity and malt loaf pit stops.
A lot of the time they are a group of young men who have been friends since childhood who end up committing crimes for money.
André has raised Mounir since childhood and is in a phony arranged marriage with his sister.
If Jimmy Grimble is about the grim realities of childhood, it is also about the stories we tell ourselves that allow us to escape.
"Whether it's my childhood or whatever, for someone to equate that with what I do as an actor is up to them, but it's too convenient to say it's because he grew up like this, that's why he's like that.
In Glass Wings (Bloodaxe), Fleur Adcock is as clear-eyed as always in a collection that ranges widely over lost worlds, family histories and memories of childhood, but always maintains the art of seemingly artless observation.
The two of them had a bond with Pink Floyd that dated back to their early days at Cambridge, where Thorgerson had ended up after an early childhood in Potters Bar, and time spent at the famously utopian Summerhill boarding school in Suffolk.
Beyond the statistics, images lodge in Cabrera's memory: the dead 14-year-old in the brush last year; the eight-year-old girls leading their younger brothers and sisters through the desert ("She's caring for them like she's their mother. Her childhood has gone").
