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Rescuing the children : a Holocaust memoir / Vivette Samuel ; translated and with an introduction by Charles B. Paul, one of those children ; foreword by Elie Wiesel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Samuel, Vivette, 1919-
- Standardized Title:
- Sauver les enfants. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--France--Biography.
- Jews.
- Jews--Persecutions--France.
- 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.
- France--Ethnic relations.
- France.
- Œuvre de secours aux enfants (France).
- Samuel, Vivette, 1919-.
- Samuel, Vivette.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Rescuing the Children is the memoir of Vivette Samuel, who at age twenty-two began working for the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE, or Society for Assistance to Children). The OSE and similar organizations saved 86 percent of Jewish children in France from deportation to Nazi concentration and extermination camps.
- Notes:
- Originally published as Sauver les enfants, c1995.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780299177430
- 0299177432
- 9781283906593
- 1283906597
- OCLC:
- 607711240
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