The first 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
Hobson Faure brings to life the experiences of these children and the Jewish and non-Jewish
organizations who helped them. Drawing on survivors’ testimonies as well as children’s diaries
letters drawings songs and poems Who Will Rescue Us? re-creates their complex journeys
including how some of them eventually found safety in America. Hobson Faure paints a moving
portrait of these children and their escape uncovering their agency in the flight from
Nazism—and knits together the network of the many who aided them along the way.
