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Rescuing the children : a Holocaust memoir / Vivette Samuel ; translated and with an introduction by Charles B. Paul ; with a foreword by Elie Wiesel.
Van Pelt Library DS135.F9 S2913 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Samuel, Vivette, 1919-
- Standardized Title:
- Sauver les enfants. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Samuel, Vivette, 1919-.
- Samuel, Vivette.
- Jews--France--Biography.
- Jews.
- France.
- Jews--Persecutions--France.
- Jews--Persecutions.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--France.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--France.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Œuvre de secours aux enfants (France).
- France--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxv, 220 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madison Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, [2002]
- Language Note:
- Transalated from the French.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published as Sauver les enfants, c1995.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0299177408
- OCLC:
- 48100645
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