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Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil

[Paperback]

by Corporon Yvette

    • Author

      Corporon Yvette

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Howard Books

    • Published

      July 2018

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      Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil

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      In this "engrossing peek into a little-known chapter of World War II, and one family's harrowing tale of finding the lost pieces of its own history" (Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Liar Temptress Solider Spy), a woman sets out to track down the descendants of the Jewish family her grandmother helped hide seventy years earlier. Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmother's stories about how the people of the small Greek island Erikousa hid a Jewish family--a tailor named Savvas and his daughters--from the Nazis during World War II. Nearly 2,000 Jews from that area died in the concentration camps, but even though everyone on Erikousa knew Savvas and his family were hiding on the island, no one ever gave them up, and the family survived the war. Years later, Yvette couldn't get the story of the Jewish tailor out of her head. She decided to track down the man's descendants--and eventually found them in Israel. Their tearful reunion was proof to her that evil doesn't always win. But just days after she made the connection, her cousin's child was gunned down in a parking lot in Kansas, a victim of a Neo-Nazi out to inflict as much harm as he could. Despite her best hopes, she was forced to confront the fact that seventy years after the Nazis were defeated, remainders of their hateful legacy still linger today. As Yvette and her family wrestled with the tragedy in their own lives, the lessons she learned from the survivors of the Holocaust helped her confront and make sense of the present. In beautiful interweaving storylines, the past and present come together in a nuanced, heartfelt "story of compassion and collective resistance" with "undeniable emotional power" (Kirkus Reviews).

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      • Author

        Corporon Yvette

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Howard Books

      • Published

        July 2018

      • Weight

        318g

      • Dimensions

        138 x 209 x 26 mm

      • ISBN

        9781501161131

      • ISBN-10

        150116113X

      • Eden Code

        4923104

      More Information

      • Author/Creator: Corporon Yvette

      • ISBN: 9781501161131

      • Publisher: Howard Books

      • Release Date: July 2018

      • Weight: 318g

      • Dimensions: 138 x 209 x 26 mm

      • Eden Code: 4923104


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