Hidden Children of the Holocaust - Belgian Nuns and Their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis

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.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• 1.: The Children


• 2.: The Nuns


• 3.: The Escorts and the Resistance


• 4.: Memory and Commemoration


• Epilogue


• Appendix: Nuns Honored as Righteous Among the Nations


• Notes


• References


• Index

About the author

Suzanne Vromen is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Bard College.

Summary

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.

Additional text

[Vromen] analyses both intelligently and succinctly the whole issue of the hidden children ... Vromen succeeds in providing a synthesis of this hitherto unwritten aspect of the war, and bringing it to the attention of a wide Anglophone readership.

Product details

• Authors: Suzanne Vromen, Suzanne (Professor Emeritus Vromen, Vromen Suzanne
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.2010
• EAN: 9780199739059
• ISBN: 978-0-19-973905-9
• No. of pages: 178
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Europe, European History, True war & combat stories, HISTORY / Europe / Western, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, True war and combat stories, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust