A hidden child in Greece
Subtitle: rescue in the Holocaust
By: Yolanda A Willis
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781524601799; 9781524601805; 9781524601782
Subjects: Jews; Biography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Personal narratives; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust; Juifs; Biographies; Holocauste, 1939-1945; Récits personnels; Justes de toutes les nations pendant l'Holocauste; Rescue; Jewish children in the Holocaust; History
Description: "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 ...
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: Dedication; title: Foreword / Yaffa Eliach, Ph.D; title: A Turning Point: How this Book Came to Be; title: Overview; title: My Family Before the War: A Photographic Essay; title: Part 1: My Family's Rescue; title: We Are At War; title: The German Invasion; title: During the Battle of Crete; title: For Food and Safety; title: In Hiding; title: Fugitives Just Like Us; title: My Brother's Rescue; title: The Italians Withdraw; title: Another Hiding Place; title: Mass Arrests on Independence Day; title: Liberation and the Civil War; title: The Aftermath: Unspoken Losses; title: Hitler Did Not Win; title: Breaking Away: College and Beyond; title: Searching for the Past; title: Reunions in Crete; title: Intermezzo; title: Part 2: Other Rescues, Other Rescuers; title: Tell Me, Yayaka; title: Heroes from Katerini; title: Heroes from Athens; title: The Flight From Larisa, Our Home; title: Yannina; title: Rescue in Volos; title: Miracle in Zakynthos; title: Afterword; title: Documentation; title: Acknowledgments; title: Index; title: About this Book; title: About the Author