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Small Feet
on the Run
Childhood during World War II Remembered
and Arguments against War

SIEGLINDE MARTIN
You may know much about World War II, but did you ever wonder
how children lived through this man-made disaster that killed
twenty-nine million civilians in Europe? Read about eighteen ordinary
children whose childhood changed due to extraordinary events not of
their making. How did they make sense of their world? They collected
and traded bomb shrapnel instead of baseball cards; instead of watching cartoons, they ran out in the morning to see what last nights
bombs had destroyed; and boys played with live ammunition like your
sons do with Fourth of July firecrackers.
Read these true stories and share them with a friend. Ponder the
bravery of the ten-year old girl traveling alone to her faraway home.
Worry about the three-year-old watching her house burn. Cheer for
the fearless boy who provides food for his family or wonder how it was
possible that, in the middle of a large bombed-out city, a four-year-old
brings a live chicken to her mother. These stories also talk about
overwhelming fear, bottomless sadness, the heartwarming kindness of
strangers and enemy soldiers, as well as childhood joys. At the end you
may agree with the motto of the last chapter Never Again War.

ISBN: 978-1-4982-9613-7 | 252 pp. | $25 | paper

Born at the beginning of WWII and educated

in post-war Germany, Sieglinde Martin
came to the U.S. in 1964. A pediatric physical
therapist by profession, she previously
published the book Teaching Motor Skills to
Children with Cerebral Palsy and Similar
Movement Disorders: A Guide for Parents and
Professionals that has been translated into
several languages. Now retired, she has lived in
Columbus, Ohio, for over fifty years. She is the
mother and grandmother of four children and
grandchildren, and is a member of Central
Ohioans for Peace.

In Small Feet on the Run, Sieglinde Martin gives a voice to the youngest victims of World War II, helping each of her storytellers describe the perils of growing up in
the midst of war: displacement, hunger, loss of home and family, worry about beloved fathers and brothers on the front.Children then and now experience all these
and more when their homelands are at war.Ms. Martins narrative urges us all to redouble our efforts to beat the weapons of war into plowshares.

MELONIE BULLER, President, Central Ohioans for Peace

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