Rescuing the Children : A Holocaust Memoir

Samuel, Vivette/ Wiesel, Elie (FRW)/ Paul, Charles B. (TRN)

University of Wisconsin Press（2013/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780299177447
• DDC分類 940.5318092

Full Description

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.

Contents

Illustrations Foreword: Rescue the Children—but the Others? A Reminiscence Introduction 1 Odessa to Paris 2 War, Exodus, and Occupation 3 To Be Committed at the Age of Twenty 4 Rivesaltes: Behind the Barbed Wire 5 At the Time of the Deportations 6 The Hunt for the Children 7 Going Underground 8 Coming Out of the War 9 Fifty Years Later 10 Children's Odysseys Appendix 1: What Happened to Them? Appendix 2: Some Numbers Appendix 3: Chronology Acronyms and Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index