| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, map. |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Modern Jewish history
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Modern Jewish history.
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| Contents |
C; Reed Final; bc |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Following the horrors of Kristallnacht in November of 1938, a courageous group of Belgian women organized a desperate and highly dangerous rescue mission to usher nearly 1,000 children out of Germany and Austria. Ninety-three were placed on a freight train, traveling through the night into the relative safety of Vichy France. Ranging in age from five to sixteen years, the children and their protectors spent a harsh winter in an abandoned barn with little food before eventually finding shelter in the isolated Château de la Hille in southern France. Remarkably, all but eleven of the original ninety-three children survived the war. As one of the La Hille children, Reed recalls with poignant detail traveling from lice-infested, abandoned convents to stately homes in the foothills of the Pyrenees, always scrambling to keep one step ahead of the Nazis. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hille (Montégut-Plantaurel, France)
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Hille (Montégut-Plantaurel, France) |
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Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) |
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Jews rescue (World War) (1939-1945) |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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Jews -- France -- Montégut-Plantaurel -- History -- 20th century.
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Jews. |
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France -- Montégut-Plantaurel. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- France -- Montégut-Plantaurel -- Biography.
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Jewish children in the Holocaust. |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- France -- Montégut-Plantaurel -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- France.
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France. |
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Montégut-Plantaurel (France) -- Ethnic relations.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780815634225 0815634226 (DLC) 2015031724 (OCoLC)910530701 |
| ISBN |
9780815653387 (electronic book) |
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0815653387 (electronic book) |
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9780815634225 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0815634226 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780815610588 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0815610580 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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