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Rescuing the children : a Holocaust memoir
Sauver les enfants. English
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- Creator
- Vivette Samuel ; translated and with an introduction by Charles B. Paul ; with a foreword by Elie Wiesel
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- xxxv, 220 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1283906597, 9780299177409, 0299177432, 9780299177447, 0299177408, 9781283906593, 0299177440, 9780299177430
- OCLC
- ocn607711240, ocn873026272, ocm48100645
- Originally published as Sauver les enfants, c1995.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-214) and index.
- Foreword: Rescue the Children--but the Others? xi -- A Reminiscence xv -- 1 Odessa to Paris 3 -- 2 War, Exodus, and Occupation 13 -- 3 To Be Committed at the Age of Twenty 27 -- 4 Rivesaltes: Behind the Barbed Wire 36 -- 5 At the Time of the Deportations 73 -- 6 The Hunt for the Children 90 -- 7 Going Underground 109 -- 8 Coming Out of the War 123 -- 9 Fifty Years Later 142 -- 10 Children's Odysseys 165 -- Appendix 1 What Happened to Them? 191 -- Appendix 2 Some Numbers 195
Subjects
- Samuel, Vivette, 1919-
- Œuvre de secours aux enfants (France)
- Jews -- France -- Biography.
- Jews -- Persecutions -- France.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- France -- Personal narratives.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust -- France.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- France.
- France -- Ethnic relations.