Dual-timeline historical fiction on the rescue of 108 Jewish children from deportation in Vichy France and later efforts to reclaim their names.
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Dual-timeline historical fiction on the rescue of 108 Jewish children from deportation in Vichy France and later efforts to reclaim their names.
Five years after the highly publicized trial of Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon," law student Valérie Portheret began her doctoral research into the 108 children who disappeared from Vénissieux fifty years earlier, children who somehow managed to escape deportation and certain death in the German concentration camps. She soon discovers that their rescue was no unexplainable miracle. It was the result of a coordinated effort by clergy, civilians, the French Resistance, and member
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Holocaust deportations, camp imprisonment, and wartime persecution
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Clergy and priests aid Resistance efforts to rescue Jewish children
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Nazi occupation, Vichy collaboration, and Resistance are central
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Forced child abandonment; Jewish persecution and camp suffering
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