Resources for Yvonne

Books

• Your Name is Renee

  Cretzmeyer, Stacy, New York, 1999.

  Story of a French Jew hidden at a Catholic orphanage. Recommended for grades 5-8.
• Don’t They Know the World Stopped Breathing?

  Fersen-Osten, Renee, New York, 1991.

  Memoir of Yvonne’s sister.
• French Children of the Holocaust

  Klarsfeld, Serge, New York, 1996.

  Rich collection of photographs of 1500 children together with biographical information.
• Vichy France and the Jews

  Marrus, Michael and Robert O. Paxton, New York: Basic Books, 1981.

  Examines the Vichy regime’s anti-Semitic policies and practices, and documents French cooperation in the Nazi effort to eliminate the Jews (NYPL description).
• *The Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Teens who Hid from the Nazis

  Kustanowitz, Esther, New York, 1999.

  Short biographies of young individuals hiding during the Holocaust.
• Hiding in the Open

  Zimering, Sabina S., St. Cloud, MN, 2001.

  Memoir of a Jewish girl who, posing as a Catholic Pole with her sister, hid in Germany.
• *Hiding to Survive: Stories of Jewish Children Rescued from the Holocaust

  Rosenberg, Maxine B., New York, 1994.

  Stories of 14 Jewish children hidden with non-Jewish families during the Holocaust.
• Hiding in the Open

  Neumark, Zenon, London and Portland, OR, 2006.

  Memoir of a Jewish teenage boy who passed as an Aryan.
• Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe

  Dwork, Deborah., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

  Pioneering study of the lives of Jewish children during the Holocaust.

Websites

• Life in Shadows

  https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/hidden-children/

  An online exhibition about Hidden Children, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Righteous Among the Nations

  https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous.html

  Information about those who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, as honored by Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial and museum
• Hidden Child Foundation

  https://www.adl.org/holocaust-education/hidden-child-foundation

  An organization of the Anti-Defamation League, founded in order to let the world know about the experiences of children hidden during the Holocaust

Films

• Au Revoir, Les Enfants

  104 minutes, 1987

  A Jewish boy is sheltered by a courageous French priest. French, with English subtitles.
• The Children of Izieu

  26 minutes, 1992

  The story of the 44 Jewish children in age from 3 to 18 in hiding at La Maison d’Izieu in France. English and French, with English subtitles.
• Weapons of the Spirit

  90 minutes, 1989

  The story of a small French town, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, and how the townspeople saved 5,000 Jews, many of them children, during the Holocaust. English and French, with English subtitles.