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A hidden child in Greece

rescue in the Holocaust

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An edition of A hidden child in Greece (2016)

A hidden child in Greece

rescue in the Holocaust

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"Six-year-old Yolanda Avram is rescued by righteous strangers during the Holocaust in Greece. This is her story of courage and survival in the context of dozens of other rescues and shows Jews saving themselves and others in audacious and often heroic ways. Her story is uplifting and focuses on those flickers of light in the vast darkness of evil, known in Greece as the Persecution. This little-known saga of the common folk outwitting the Third Reich is a powerful and important story, told simply and movingly in cinematic episodes. The book is incandescent with empathy and gratitude. "What a powerful and moving story it is."--Sir Martin Gilbert, official biographer of Winston Churchill, knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, and author of eighty-eight historical books "A Hidden Child in Greece is a monumental story that documents her family's miraculous survival in a unique and moving way. It gives life to the principle of human dignity and courage as a universal precept ...

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English
Pages
326

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Table of Contents

Dedication
Foreword / Yaffa Eliach, Ph.D
A Turning Point: How this Book Came to Be
Overview
My Family Before the War: A Photographic Essay
Part 1: My Family's Rescue
We Are At War
The German Invasion
During the Battle of Crete
For Food and Safety
In Hiding
Fugitives Just Like Us
My Brother's Rescue
The Italians Withdraw
Another Hiding Place
Mass Arrests on Independence Day
Liberation and the Civil War
The Aftermath: Unspoken Losses
Hitler Did Not Win
Breaking Away: College and Beyond
Searching for the Past
Reunions in Crete
Intermezzo
Part 2: Other Rescues, Other Rescuers
Tell Me, Yayaka
Heroes from Katerini
Heroes from Athens
The Flight From Larisa, Our Home
Yannina
Rescue in Volos
Miracle in Zakynthos
Afterword
Documentation
Acknowledgments
Index
About this Book
About the Author

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) and index.

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Bloomington, IN

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.531809 WIL
Library of Congress
DS135.G73 W558 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxii, 326 pages
Number of pages
326

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL37885667M
Internet Archive
hiddenchildingre0000will
ISBN 10
1524601799, 1524601802, 1524601780
ISBN 13
9781524601799, 9781524601805, 9781524601782
LCCN
2016905437
OCLC/WorldCat
989963141
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B0794BVM5C

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