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Book Notes:
Livermore Street
Charles
B. Paul '57
Rescuing the Children: A Holocaust Memoir
Karen Lind '58
Earthwalking & other poems
Mark
Pinsky '62
Introduction to Fourier Analysis and Wavelets
Stephen
Jay Gould '63
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
Robert
Kehlmann '63
The Inner Light
David
M. Sherman '72
Tending Animals in the Global Village -- A Guide to International Veterinary Medicine
Chris
Finan '76
Alfred E. Smith: The Happy Warrior
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Robyn Overstreet '96
Anne Townsend '03
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 Charles
B. Paul '57 recently translated Rescuing the Children:
A Holocaust Memoir. It is
the autobiography of Vivette Samuel, an extraordinary woman who saved hundreds
of Jewish children in World War II France.
The organization was the OSE, or Society for Assistance
to Children, which saved thousands of Jewish children in France
from deportation to Nazi
extermination camps. These children were either hidden among non-Jewish
families, placed in the 18 children's homes run by the OSE, or selected
to escape clandestinely to the neutral countries of Switzerland
or Spain. Due to the
efforts of the OSE and like-minded organizations, both Jewish and non-Jewish,
about 86 percent of the Jewish children in France survived the Holocaust.
One of the outstanding representatives of the OSE was
Vivette Samuel. At the age of twenty-two she accepted the position of
resident social worker
in the camp of Rivesaltes, set up by the Vichy government to intern
foreign "undesirables." Her
daunting task was to obtain the interned parents' written consent that
would permanently separate them from their children so that the latter
would live. In a period of six months, she was able to liberate nearly
400 foreign-born
children from the camp.
Elie Wiesel and Charles B. Paul were among the children helped by the
OSE. Their contributions to this book are a tribute of gratitude to Vivette
Samuel and her heroic colleagues.
Vivette Samuel is retired from her career in social work and currently
lives in Paris, France. Charles B. Paul, a historian, is professor
emeritus in the Humanities Department at San Jose State University.
To order the book visit the publisher's Web site
at www. wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/
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