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Miracles do happen / Helen Stein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stein, Helen, 1930- author.
- Series:
- My Voice: the Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors Series
- My Voice: The Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stein, Helen, 1930---Biography.
- Stein, Helen.
- Cohn, Marianne, 1922-1944.
- Cohn, Marianne.
- Holocaust survivors--Interviews.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust survivors--Biography.
- Holocaust survivors--Great Britain--History.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Jewish refugees--Great Britain--Biography.
- Jewish refugees.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Personal narratives.
- France.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([140] pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- My voice : Helen Stein
- Helen Stein
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2025.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Biography/History:
- The Fed is Manchester's leading social care charity serving the Jewish community. In June of 2021, The Fed were awarded the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service for the My Voice Project, the highest possible accolade for a voluntary sector group.
- Summary:
- Helen's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Helen was born in Strasbourg. She was helped by Marianne Cohn, who smuggled many children to safety in Switzerland, but Helen and her siblings were arrested and imprisoned.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- My Voice Project
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1 - My family before the war
- 2 - Childhood memories in Strasbourg
- 3 - Troubled times
- 4 - Smuggling dollars in shoes
- 5 - Kristallnacht
- 6 - Evacuation
- 7 - Life in the unoccupied zone
- 8 - Deportations and occupation of the free zone
- 9 - Two miracles
- 10 - My parents wanted to save us
- 11 - The journey
- 12 - Imprisonment and interrogation in Annemasse
- 13 - Liberated and reunited
- 14 - How my parents survived
- 15 - What happened to the rest of my family?
- 16 - Life in Strasbourg after the war
- 17 - Meeting and marrying Leo
- 18 - Married life
- 19 - Saying thank you to Mr Racine
- 20 - My children and grandchildren
- 21 - Studying and retirement
- 22 - My parents and siblings
- 23 - My message to future generations
- Glossary
- Appendix: Marianne Cohn
- I Shall Betray Tomorrow
- My Voice volunteers
- About The Fed.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher-supplied metadata; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-5261-9239-X
- 1-5261-9241-1
- OCLC:
- 1523054255
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