The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

[Agalayth]

I am currently reading a haunting story called The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy. It is really good so far. Here's the blurb on the back:

In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed "Hansel" and "Gretel." They wander in the woods until they are taken in by Magda, an eccentric and stubborn old woman called "witch" by the nearby villagers. Magda is determined to save them, even as a German officer arrives in the village with his own plans for the children.

Read it, it is wonderfully written and truly haunting.