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Author Vromen, Suzanne.

Title Hidden children of the Holocaust : Belgian nuns and their daring rescue of young Jews from the Nazis / Suzanne Vromen
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 178 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Contents The children -- The nuns -- The escorts and the resistance -- Memory and commemoration
Summary In Belgium in the summer of 1942, when the Nazis began the brutal roundup of Jewish families, parents searched desperately for safe havens for their children. This book tells the stories of children who found haven in Roman Catholic convents and orphanages, and of the women who sheltered them
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-172) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Jewish children in the Holocaust.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
Holocaust survivors -- Interviews
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
Holocaust survivors
Jewish children in the Holocaust
Enfants juifs pendant la Shoah -- Belgique.
Survivants de la Shoah -- Entretiens.
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Juifs -- Sauvetage -- Aspect religieux -- Belgique.
Religieuses -- Belgique -- 1900-1945.
Genre/Form interviews.
Interviews
Interviews.
Interviews.
Form Electronic book
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