At the mercy of strangers : the rescue of Jewish children with assumed identities in Poland / Nahum Bogner ; [translated from the Hebrew by Ralph Mandel].

[This book] "by Dr. Nahum Bogner is the result of his unique and pathfinding research relating to the rescue of children who lived and survived under an assumed identity in Poland among various strands of the Christian population--in towns, in villages and in vonvents--as well as the efforts made by...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Be-ḥasde zarim. English = בחסדי זרים. אנגלית
Main Author:	Bogner, Nahum = ‏בוגנר, נחום
Language:	English
Language of the Original:	Hebrew
Published:	Jerusalem : Yad Vashem, 2009.
Subjects:	Jewish children in the Holocaust > Poland. World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue > Poland. Holocaust survivors > Poland > History. Poland > Ethnic relations. Ethnic relations. Holocaust survivors. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Poland. Survivants de la Shoah > Pologne. History.
Genre:	History.
Online Access:	Connect to: Table of contents - All users Connect to: Table of contents - All users
Binding Information:	Case bound.
Physical Description:	368 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

1. Difficulties of Rescue in Poland
2. Children Hidden with Christian Families
3. Shepherds and Parobeks (Farm Hands): The Villiage as a Refuge
4. The Street Children
5. The Rescue of Children by the Zegota Organization
6. The Convent Children
7. The Problem of the Children after Liberation
8. Holocaust Orphans and the National Agenda
9. "The Zionist Koordynacja for teh Redepemtion of Jewish Children"
10. Redeeming the Children
11. Back to the Bosom of their People.