Research Catalog

Title

Merci de nous avoir sauvés : enfants cachés en Belgique : histoires personelles d'enfants juifs cachés qui on survécu en Belgique aux persécutions Nazies pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, grâce à l'aide de "Justes" parmi la population Belge / Sylvain Brachfeld.

Author

Brachfeld, Sylvain

Publication

Herzlia, Israel : Institute for the Research on Belgian Judaism, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Institut de Recherche sur le Judaïsme Belge.

Description

671 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Contains testimonies of 75 Jews who were children at the time of the Shoah and survived in hiding in Belgium between 1942-44. Includes a historical overview of the persecutions in Belgium, the stories of some Belgian rescuers, interviews with Jewish leaders, a chapter on Jews who helped the Jews of Belgium, a study of the collaboration of local police in the arrest of Jews in Antwerp in 1942, a list of 1,558 Belgians recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous among the Nations, and a list of 262 institutions that hosted Jewish children during the Shoah.

Subject

• 1939-1945
• Geschichte 1942-1944
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Belgium
• Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust > Belgium
• Children in the Holocaust > Belgium
• World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue > Belgium
• Holocaust survivors > Belgium
• Belgium > History > 1914-

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 651-655) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

965900964X

OCLC

• 234114059
• SCSB-12823645

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library