Who will rescue us? : the story of the Jewish children who fled to France and America during the Holocaust / Laura Hobson Faure.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hobson Faure, Laura, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish children in the Holocaust.

World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.

World War, 1939-1945.

Jewish refugees--France--History--20th century.

Jewish refugees.

Refugee children--France--History--20th century.

Refugee children.

Jewish refugees--United States--History--20th century.

Refugee children--United States--History--20th century.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

xix, 403 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2025]

Notes:

"On 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 through the Kindertransport, fewer than 500 found a 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 that helped them. Drawing on survivors' testimonies as well as children's diaries, letters, drawings, songs, and poems, Who will rescue us? recreates 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 those who aided them along the way."--Dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-390) and index.

ISBN:

9780300269963

030026996X

OCLC:

1464884651

Publisher Number:

90101596133