Overview
This title features interviews with eighteen Jewish hidden children of France and Belgium, telling the story of their survival during World War II.
Full Product Details
Author: Danielle Bailly ,
Betty Becker-Theye
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: Excelsior Editions
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.572kg
ISBN: 9781438431963
ISBN 10: 1438431961
Pages: 409
Publication Date: 01 June 2010
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""...make[s] a contribution to our knowledge of the Holocaust."" - AJL Reviews ""In interviews, the survivors revealed the social and psychological struggles they have had to cope with over the years. Most have pursued productive careers and raised families. Told in interview or narrative form, both ways are illuminating and made more so by Betty Becker-Theye's unusually fluent translation."" - Sacramento Book Review ""The Hidden Children of France documents the stolen childhoods of eighteen Holocaust survivors who are among the last witnesses of the Nazi era. During this time The New School's University in Exile brought to safety over 180 great scholars whose very lives, just like these children, were threatened by National Socialism and the evil of Hitler. It is through the stories of survivors that we preserve the truth and history of the past and educate our future generations to ensure compassion and justice for all."" - Bob Kerrey, President, The New School ""Meticulous translation. Unlike some testimony literature where the voice recording prevails, in this collection each testimony retains an individual voice."" - Marilyn Gaddis Rose, translator of Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve's Volupte: The Sensual Man"
...make[s] a contribution to our knowledge of the Holocaust. - AJL Reviews In interviews, the survivors revealed the social and psychological struggles they have had to cope with over the years. Most have pursued productive careers and raised families. Told in interview or narrative form, both ways are illuminating and made more so by Betty Becker-Theye's unusually fluent translation. - Sacramento Book Review The Hidden Children of France documents the stolen childhoods of eighteen Holocaust survivors who are among the last witnesses of the Nazi era. During this time The New School's University in Exile brought to safety over 180 great scholars whose very lives, just like these children, were threatened by National Socialism and the evil of Hitler. It is through the stories of survivors that we preserve the truth and history of the past and educate our future generations to ensure compassion and justice for all. - Bob Kerrey, President, The New School Meticulous translation. Unlike some testimony literature where the voice recording prevails, in this collection each testimony retains an individual voice. - Marilyn Gaddis Rose, translator of Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve's Volupte: The Sensual Man
Author Information
Danielle Bailly is one of the surviving ""hidden children."" She was Professor of Linguistics at Paris Diderot University until 1998. Since then she has worked as a consultant and researcher. Betty Becker-Theye is Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Humanities at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and Adjunct Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center. She is the author of The Seducer as Mythic Figure in Richardson, Laclos, and Kierkegaard.
