Author : Vivette Samuel
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 2002-05-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299177409
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.
Author : Ann Byers
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766033238
"Discusses the Kindertransport, including the people who organized the operation, how the transports worked, the children's lives who escaped on a transport, and how ten thousand children were saved from the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Bert-Jan Flim
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 9781883053888
Occasional Publications of the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Program of Jewish Studies, Cornell University, no. 7 Through its use of lively quotations taken from interviews with those involved in saving Jewish children in the Netherlands during World War II, the book conveys an accurate picture of the situation the rescue activists faced. "Saving The Children: History Of The Organized Effort To Rescue Jewish Children"; was published a decade ago in Dutch language as "Omdat Hun Hart Spark." This book is considered the definitive volume on organized rescue of Jewish children in the Netherlands during the Holocaust. Lots of illustrations.
Author : Suzanne Vromen
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199739056
In the summer of 1942 in Belgium, Jewish parents searched desperately for safe haven for their children. As Suzanne Vromen reveals in Hidden Children of the Holocaust, they quite often found sanctuary in Roman Catholic convents and orphanages. Vromen has interviewed not only those who were hidden as children, but also the Christian women who rescued them, and the nuns who gave the children shelter, all of whose voices are heard in this moving book. Indeed, here are numerous first-hand memoirs of life in a wartime convent--the secrecy, the deprivation, the cruelty, and the kindness--all with the backdrop of the terror of the Nazi occupation.
Author : Jack Werber
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 141285430X
In Saving Children, Jack Werber describes in detail what life in Buchenwald was like, painting a haunting picture of his daily struggle for survival. But Werber did more than survive; he made saving children his special mission. In what is one of the most amazing stories of the Holocaust, Jack Werber helped to save the lives of some seven hundred Jewish children who had arrived at Buchenwald in late 1944, including Nobel Prize-winner Elie Wiesel and Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, former Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel. At great personal risk, he arranged for the children to be hidden in various barracks with false working papers. He and his group actually started a school where the children studied Jewish history, music, and Hebrew. These activities gave the youngsters hope that they might survive and ultimately most of them did. Werber’s entire family—his wife, daughter, parents, and seven siblings—were all murdered by the Nazis. "There was no reason to go on," he had thought, but seeing the children transformed his outlook. He resolved to prevent them from meeting his daughter’s fate. Out of 3,200 Polish prisoners who entered the camp together with Werber, only eleven were alive by war’s end. Of those, he was the only Jew.
Author : Deborah Hodge
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1770493662
This important book tells the story of how ten thousand Jewish children were rescued out of Nazi Europe just before the outbreak of World War 2. They were saved by the Kindertransport — a rescue mission that transported the children (or Kinder) from Nazi-ruled countries to safety in Britain. The book includes real-life accounts of the children and is illustrated with archival photographs, paintings of pre-war Nazi Germany by artist, Hans Jackson, and original art by the Kinder commemorating their rescue.
Author : Peter Sís
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1324015748
A Finalist for the 2022 Jane Addams Children's Book Award An NPR Best Book of 2021 A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2021 A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 A Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of 2021 A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of 2021 In December 1938, a young Englishman canceled a ski vacation and went instead to Prague to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Nazis who were crowded into the city. Setting up a makeshift headquarters in his hotel room, Nicholas Winton took names and photographs from parents desperate to get their children out of danger. He raised money, found foster families in England, arranged travel and visas, and, when necessary, bribed officials and forged documents. In the frantic spring and summer of 1939, as the Nazi shadow fell over Europe, he organized the transportation of almost 700 children to safety. Then, when the war began and no more children could be rescued, he put away his records and told no one. It was only fifty years later that a chance discovery and a famous television appearance brought Winton’s actions to light. Peter Sís weaves Winton’s experiences and the story of one of the children he saved, Vera Gissing. Nicky & Vera is a tale of decency, action, and courage told in luminous, poetic images by an internationally renowned artist.
Author : H. Jack Mayer
Publisher : Long Trail Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 098411131X
Tells story of Irena Sendler who organized the rescue of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II, and the teenagers who started the investigation into Irena's heroism.
Author : Jennifer Roy
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1491460725
"Tells Irena Sendler's story of saving 2,500 children during the Holocaust"--
Author : Maxine B. Rosenberg
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 24,14 MB
Release : 1998-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780395900208
During the time of the Holocaust, some Jewish families were able to hide their children with non-Jews. These poignant stories--the experiences of fourteen of these hidden children--include postscripts about the child-rescuer relationship after the war. Photos.
