The Children of La Hille: Eluding Nazi Capture During World War II by Reed, Walter W.
The Children of La Hille: Eluding Nazi Capture During World War II by Reed, Walter W.

The Children of La Hille: Eluding Nazi Capture During World War II

Following the horrors of Kristallnacht in November of 1938, frightened parents were forced to find refuge for...
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The Children of La Hille: Eluding Nazi Capture During World War II by Reed, Walter W.

The Children of La Hille: Eluding Nazi Capture During World War II

$56.50
The Children of La Hille: Eluding Nazi Capture During World War II by Reed, Walter W.

The Children of La Hille: Eluding Nazi Capture During World War II

$56.50
Author: Walter W. Reed
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Following the horrors of Kristallnacht in November of 1938, frightened parents were forced to find refuge for their children, far from the escalating anti-Jewish violence. To that end, a courageous group of Belgian women organized a desperate and highly dangerous rescue mission to usher nearly 1,000 children out of Germany and Austria. Of these children, ninety-three were placed on a freight train, traveling through the night away from their families and into the relative safety of Vichy France. Ranging in age from five to sixteen years, the children along with their protectors spent a harsh winter in an abandoned barn with little food before eventually finding shelter in the isolated Ch teau de la Hille in southern France. While several of the youngest children were safely routed to the United States, those who remained continued to be hunted by Nazi soldiers until finally smuggled illegally across the Swiss Alps to safe houses. Remarkably, all but eleven of the original ninety-three children survived the war due to the unrelenting efforts of their protectors and their own resilience.

In The Children of La Hille, Reed narrates this stunning firsthand account of the amazing rescue and the countless heroic efforts of those who helped along the way. As one of the La Hille children, Reed recalls with poignant detail traveling from lice-infested, abandoned convents to stately homes in the foothills of the Pyrenees, always scrambling to keep one step ahead of the Nazis. Drawing upon survivor interviews, journals, and letters, Reed affectionately describes rousing afternoon swims in a nearby natural pond and lively renditions of Moli re plays performed for an audience of local farmers. He tells of heart-stopping near misses as the Vichy police roundups intensified, forcing children to hide in the woods to escape capture. The Children of La Hille gives readers an intimate glimpse of a harrowing moment in history, paying tribute to ordinary people acting in extraordinary ways.

Author: Walter W. Reed
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 11/19/2015
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.11h x 5.96w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780815610588

About the Author
Walter W. Reed (originally Werner Rindsberg) grew up in a Bavarian village near Würzburg and experienced Nazi persecution of Jews, including arrest as a fourteen-year-old on Kristallnacht. After immigrating to New York in 1941, he served as an American soldier from 1943 to 1946, and as an interrogator of German prisoners in General Patton's Third Army, starting after the liberation of Paris in 1944. A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, he pursued a forty-year career in public relations. Since 1998, he has been a frequent speaker about the Holocaust in the United States and in Europe.
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