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Hidden children of the Holocaust : Belgian nuns and their daring rescue of young Jews from the Nazis / Suzanne Vromen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vromen, Suzanne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Holocaust survivors--Interviews.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 178 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill., map, ports.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Belgium in the summer of 1942, when the Nazis began the brutal roundup of Jewish families, parents searched desperately for safe havens for their children. This book tells the stories of children who found haven in Roman Catholic convents and orphanages, and of the women who sheltered them.
- Contents:
- The children
- The nuns
- The escorts and the resistance
- Memory and commemoration.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-172) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4356-5285-1
- 9786612402791
- 0-19-518128-X
- 0-19-972053-3
- 1-282-40279-X
- 1-281-85147-7
- 9786611851477
- OCLC:
- 1336403182
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