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<p><P>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 <b>Hidden Children of the Holocaust</b>, these children found sanctuary with other families and schools&#151;but especially in Roman Catholic convents and orphanages.<br> Vromen has interviewed not only those who were hidden as children, but also the Christian women who rescued them, and the nuns who gave the children shelter, all of whose voices are heard in this powerfully moving book. Indeed, here are numerous first-hand memoirs of life in a wartime convent&#151;the secrecy, the humor, the admiration, the anger, the deprivation, the cruelty, and the kindness&#151;all with the backdrop of the terror of the Nazi occupation. We read the stories of the women of the Resistance who risked their lives in placing Jewish children in the care of the Church, and of the Mothers Superior and nuns who sheltered these children and hid their identity from the authorities. Perhaps most riveting are the stories told by the children themselves&#151;abruptly separated from distraught parents and gi

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Author

Suzanne Vromen; OUP

Publisher

Oxford University PressNew York

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781281851475

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Christian, Religion, History

Rating

3.68 / 5 (23 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14