The Forgotten Names (Paperback)

Five years after the highly publicized trial of Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon," law student Valérie Portheret began her doctoral research into the 108 children who disappeared from Vénissieux fifty years earlier, children who somehow managed to escape deportation and certain death in the German concentration camps. She soon discovers that their rescue was no unexplainable miracle. It was the result of a coordinated effort by clergy, civilians, the French Resistance, and members of other humanitarian organizations who risked their lives as part of a committee dedicated to saving those most vulnerable innocents.

Theirs was a heroic act without precedent in Nazi-occupied Europe, made possible due to a loophole in the Nazi agenda to deport all Jewish immigrants from the country: a legally recognized exemption for unaccompanied minors. Therefore, to save their children, the Jewish mothers of Vénissieux were asked to make the ultimate sacrifice of abandoning them forever.

Told in dual timelines, The Forgotten Names is a reimagined account of the true stories of the French men and women who have since been named Righteous Among the Nations, the children they rescued, the stifled cries of shattered mothers, and a law student, whose twenty-five-year journey allowed those children to reclaim their heritage and remember their forgotten names.

General

Imprint:	Harper Muse
Release date:	June 2024
Authors:	Mario Escobar
Dimensions:	213 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	384
ISBN-13:	978-1-4002-4841-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian Fiction Books > Christianity > Christian Fiction Books > Fiction > Shipping In 24hrs
LSN:	1-4002-4841-8
Barcode:	9781400248414

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