Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and Their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis. By Suzanne Vromen. New York:Oxford University Press. 2008. Pp. xiii þ 178. Cloth $24.95. ISBN 978-0-19-518128-9.

摘要

This fascinating, informative, and original study relates the little-known story ofnthe rescue of hundreds of Jewish children by Belgian nuns during the Holocaust.nIt is based in large part on interviews with sixteen women and twelve men whonwere hidden as children, eight nuns and one priest involved in the rescuenoperations, and two surviving members of the Resistance who escorted thenchildren from their parents to the convents. The author underscores thenintelligence, charity, and humanitarian impulses of the Belgian nuns and presentsnher findings within the larger context of Occupied Belgium.