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The Forgotten Names - A Novel (Hardcover)
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The Forgotten Names - A Novel (Hardcover)
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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.
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