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Title:
The children of La Hille : eluding Nazi capture during World War II / Walter W. Reed.
Author:
Reed, Walter W., 1924- author.
Publication Information:
Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2015.

©2015
Call Number:
DS135.F85 M6547 2015
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780815634225

9780815610588
Series:
Modern Jewish history

Modern Jewish history.
Physical Description:
xv, 306 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1. Please Take My Children -- 2. Refuge in Belgium, 1938-1940 -- 3. Second Escape, May 14, 1940 -- 4. Life at Seyre, 1940 -- 5. The "Secours Suisse aux Enfants" and a Tough Winter -- 6. The Belgian Angels' Rescue Effort from across the Atlantic -- 7. Life at the Chateau de La Hille, 1941-1942 -- 8. Internment and Liberation -- 9. Hazardous Journeys across Well-Guarded Borders -- 10. The Noose Tightens and More Try to Escape -- 11. Hidden and Surviving in France until the End -- 12. New Faces at La Hille -- 13. Those Who Helped and Those Who Hindered -- 14. The Heroes of La Hille -- 15. After the Liberation -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: List of Twelve Who Were Deported and Murdered -- Historical Timeline -- Notes -- Index
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