The Forgotten Names

<p><strong>For fans of <em>The Book of Lost Names</em> and <em>The Way We Hide</em>!</strong></p><p><strong>In August 1942 French parents were faced with a horrible choice: watch their children die or abandon them forever. Fifty years later it becomes one woman's mission to match the abandoned names with the people they belong to.</strong></p><p>Five years after the highly publicized trial of Klaus Barbie the Butcher of Lyon law student Val��rie Portheret began her doctoral research into the 108 children who disappeared from V��nissieux fifty years earlier children who somehow managed to escape deportation and certain death in the German concentration camps. She soon discovers that their rescue was no unexplainable miracle. It was the result of a coordinated effort by clergy civilians the French Resistance and members of other humanitarian organizations who risked their lives as part of a committee dedicated to saving those most vulnerable innocents.</p><p>Theirs was a heroic act without precedent in Nazi-occupied Europe made possible due to a loophole in the Nazi agenda to deport all Jewish immigrants from the country: a legally recognized exemption for unaccompanied minors. Therefore to save their children the Jewish mothers of V��nissieux were asked to make the ultimate sacrifice of abandoning them forever.</p><p>Told in dual timelines <em>The Forgotten Names</em> is a reimagined account of the true stories of the French men and women who have since been named Righteous Among the Nations the children they rescued the stifled cries of shattered mothers and a law student whose twenty-five-year journey allowed those children to reclaim their heritage and remember their forgotten names. With its gripping narrative and thought-provoking themes <em>The Forgotten Names</em> is a must-read for history enthusiasts and book clubs alike. Dive deeper into the novel with included discussion questions a historical timeline and insightful author notes.</p><p><strong>Also by author: <em> Auschwitz Lullaby Children of the Stars Remember Me The Librarian of Saint-Malo The Teacher of Warsaw</em> and <em>The Swiss Nurse</em></strong></p>