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Time & Location
05 Jun 2025, 20:00
Zoom
About the event
Laura Hobson Faure is professor of modern history and chair of Modern Jewish History at Université Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne. She’s an expert on French-American Jewish history and the author of the National Jewish book award-winning The “Jewish Marshall Plan”: The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France and her latest book, Who Will Rescue Us?: The Story of the Jewish Children who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust
Who Will Rescue Us? is the first scholarly account of Jewish children’s flight from Nazi Germany to France—and their subsequent escape to America from the Vichy regime
At the eve of the Second World War, an estimated 1.6 million Jewish children lived in Nazi-occupied Europe. While 10,000 of them escaped to Britain in the Kindertransport, only some 500 found a new home in France. Here they attempted to begin again—but their refuge would all too soon become a trap.
For the first time, Laura…
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