Who Will Rescue Us? : The Story of the Jewish Children Who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hobson Faure, Laura.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of Holocaust survivors--United States.

Children of Holocaust survivors--France.

Jewish children in the Holocaust.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2025.

Summary:

The first account of Jewish children’s flight from Nazi Germany to France—and their subsequent escape to America from the Vichy regime At 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 in the Kindertransport, only some 500 found a new 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 who helped them. Drawing on survivors’ testimonies as well as children’s diaries, letters, drawings, songs, and poems, Who Will Rescue Us? re-creates 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 the many who aided them along the way.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

On Names

Introduction

chapter 1 Elfriede and the November 1938 Turning Point

chapter 2 From Frankfurt am Main to Strasbourg

chapter 3 Parisian Initiatives for Jewish Children

chapter 4 Centralization and Action

chapter 5 Ruth

chapter 6 Accidental Republics

chapter 7 An Enchanted Parenthesis

chapter 8 The Meanings of War, September 1939–June 1940

chapter 9 “The Real, Great Anxiety”

chapter 10 Peter and Werner

chapter 11 American Networks to Evacuate Central European Jewish Children

chapter 12 New York Negotiations

chapter 13 Perceiving Jewish Persecution in Wartime France

chapter 14 Evacuating Children, Not Jews

chapter 15 Those Left Behind

Conclusion

Researching Who Will Rescue Us?

Appendices

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780300281385

0300281382

OCLC:

1503846647