Title: Noah's child
Description: It is 1942 and the Jews are being deported from Belgium. Separated from his parents, seven-year-old Joseph must go into hiding. He is taken in the dead of night to an orphanage, the Villa Jaune, where the benign and enigmatic Father Pons presides over a motley assortment of children. With the ever-present threat of the Gestapo growing closer, Joseph learns that the secret of survival is to conceal his Jewish heritage. Soon Joseph also discovers that Father Pons has a secret of his own: he is risking his life not only for the boys in his care, but for the future of the Jewish faith itself.
Subjects: Faith, Clergy, Juvenile fiction, Jewish children, Fiction, Courage, World War, 1939-1945, Orphanages, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Belgium, fiction, Clergy, fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Fiction, war & military, Fiction, historical
Places: Belgium