Rescuing the Children: A Holocaust Memoir

ISBN-13: 9780299177409 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 256 str.

Vivette Samuel; Charles B. Paul; Elie Wiesel

Opis

The organization Oeuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE, or Society for Assistance to Children) saved thousands of Jewish children in France from deportation to Nazi extermination camps. These children were either hidden among non-Jewish families, placed in the 18 children's homes run by the OSE, or selected to escape clandestinely to the neutral countries of Switzerland or Spain. As a result of the efforts of the OSE and like-minded organizations, both Jewish and non-Jewish, about 86 per cent of the Jewish children in France survived the Holocaust.