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Who Will Rescue Us?|Laura Hobson Faure

Who Will Rescue Us? : The Story of the Jewish Children Who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust

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The first account of Jewish children's flight from Nazi Germany to France--and their subsequent escape to America from the Vichy regime At the eve of the Second World War, an estimated 1.6 million Jewish children lived in Nazi-occupied Europe. While 10,000 of them escaped to Britain in the Kindertransport, only some 500 found a new home in France. Here they attempted to begin again--but their refuge would all too soon become a trap. For the first time, Laura Hobson Faure brings to life the experiences of these children, and the Jewish and non-Jewish organizations who helped them. Drawing on survivors' testimonies as well as children's diaries, letters, drawings, songs, and poems, Who Will Rescue Us? re-creates their complex journeys, including how some of them eventually found safety in America. Hobson Faure paints a moving portrait of these children and their escape, uncovering their agency in the flight from Nazism--and knits together the network of the many who aided them along the way.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780300269963
  • ISBN-10: 030026996X
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publish Date: April 2025
  • Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.1 x 1.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Page Count: 432

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