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Hidden Children of the Holocaust - Belgian Nuns and Their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis (Hardcover)
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Hidden Children of the Holocaust - Belgian Nuns and Their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 5 200
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In the terrifying summer of 1942 in Belgium, when the Nazis began
the brutal roundup of Jewish families, parents searched desperately
for safe haven for their children. As Suzanne Vromen reveals in
Hidden Children of the Holocaust, these children found sanctuary
with other families and schools--but especially 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
powerfully moving book. Indeed, here are numerous first-hand
memoirs of life in a wartime convent--the secrecy, the humor, the
admiration, the anger, the deprivation, the cruelty, and the
kindness--all with the backdrop of the terror of the Nazi
occupation. We read the stories of the women of the Resistance who
risked their lives in placing Jewish children in the care of the
Church, and of the Mothers Superior and nuns who sheltered these
children and hid their identity from the authorities. Perhaps most
riveting are the stories told by the children themselves--abruptly
separated from distraught parents and given new names, the children
were brought to the convents with a sense of urgency, sometimes
under the cover of darkness. They were plunged into a new life,
different from anything they had ever known, and expected to adapt
seamlessly. Vromen shows that some adapted so well that they
converted to Catholicism, at times to fit in amid the daily prayers
and rituals, but often because the Church appealed to them. Vromen
also examines their lives after the war, how they faced the
devastating loss of parents to the Holocaust, struggled to
regaintheir identities and sought to memorialize those who saved
them.
This remarkable book offers an inspiring chronicle of the brave
individuals who risked everything to protect innocent young
strangers, as well as a riveting account of the "hidden children"
who lived to tell their stories.
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