Who Will Rescue Us?: The Story of the Jewish Children who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust
Autor Laura Hobson Faureen Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 apr 2025
At the eve of the Second World War, an estimated 1.6 million Jewish children lived in Nazi-occupied Europe. While 10,000 of them escaped to Britain in the Kindertransport, only some 500 found a new home in France. Here they attempted to begin again—but their refuge would all too soon become a trap.
For the first time, Laura Hobson Faure brings to life the experiences of these children, and the Jewish and non-Jewish organizations who helped them. Drawing on survivors’ testimonies as well as children’s diaries, letters, drawings, songs, and poems, Who Will Rescue Us? re-creates their complex journeys, including how some of them eventually found safety in America.
Hobson Faure paints a moving portrait of these children and their escape, uncovering their agency in the flight from Nazism—and knits together the network of the many who aided them along the way.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780300269963
ISBN-10: 030026996X
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: 16 color illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 mm
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 030026996X
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: 16 color illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 mm
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Recenzii
“Meticulously researched and warmly empathetic, Who Will Rescue Us? goes straight to the reader’s heart – and stays there.”—Debórah Dwork, author of Saints and Liars
“Moving, deeply researched and innovative. . . . Laura Hobson Faure meticulously traces the determined efforts of transnational networks and collectives of relief workers and aid organizations and, most poignantly, Jewish families and children themselves, as they struggled to escape the Holocaust.”—Atina Grossmann, author of Jews, Germans, and Allies
“A compulsive read. Laura Hobson Faure has exploited an impressive array of sources to craft a richly detailed and engaging narrative of Holocaust rescue. By exploring Jewish children’s agency, she sets a high standard for future scholarship in this area.”—Daniel Lee, author of The SS Officer’s Armchair
“Laura Hobson Faure has written a detailed history of child refugees fleeing Nazi persecution. Who Will Rescue Us? is an engaging and very readable demonstration of the complexity of this important subject.”—Andrea Hammel, author of The Kindertransport: What Really Happened
“Beautifully written and deeply moving, Who Will Rescue Us? challenges us to radically rethink what it means to rescue a child. Laura Hobson Faure invites us to set aside assumptions about what makes a ‘heroic’ act, and instead embrace the complex and messy humanity that lies at the heart of rescue endeavours.”—Rebecca Clifford, author of Survivors
“Moving, deeply researched and innovative. . . . Laura Hobson Faure meticulously traces the determined efforts of transnational networks and collectives of relief workers and aid organizations and, most poignantly, Jewish families and children themselves, as they struggled to escape the Holocaust.”—Atina Grossmann, author of Jews, Germans, and Allies
“A compulsive read. Laura Hobson Faure has exploited an impressive array of sources to craft a richly detailed and engaging narrative of Holocaust rescue. By exploring Jewish children’s agency, she sets a high standard for future scholarship in this area.”—Daniel Lee, author of The SS Officer’s Armchair
“Laura Hobson Faure has written a detailed history of child refugees fleeing Nazi persecution. Who Will Rescue Us? is an engaging and very readable demonstration of the complexity of this important subject.”—Andrea Hammel, author of The Kindertransport: What Really Happened
“Beautifully written and deeply moving, Who Will Rescue Us? challenges us to radically rethink what it means to rescue a child. Laura Hobson Faure invites us to set aside assumptions about what makes a ‘heroic’ act, and instead embrace the complex and messy humanity that lies at the heart of rescue endeavours.”—Rebecca Clifford, author of Survivors
Notă biografică
Laura Hobson Faure is professor of modern history and chair of Modern Jewish History at Université Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne. She’s an expert on French-American Jewish history and the author of The “Jewish Marshall Plan”: The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France.