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PublisherHoward Books
ISBN-10150116113X
ISBN-139781501161131
eBay Product ID (ePID)12038403013
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Book TitleSomething Beautiful Happened : a Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil
Number of Pages328 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicCultural Heritage, Religious, Historical
Publication Year2018
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography
AuthorYvette Manessis Corporon
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight11.1 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.5 in
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ReviewsA story of compassion and collective resistance during World War II... there is undeniable emotional power in the connections her story helps forge between the living and the dead, some of whom might be otherwise forgotten.
SynopsisYvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmother's stories about how the people of their tiny Greek island Erikousa banded together to hide a Jewish family-a tailor named Savvas and his daughters-from the Nazis during World War II. Decades later, Yvette couldn't get Savvas's story out of her head. She set out to search for his descendants. Eventually, miraculously, she found them, reuniting the two families with a shared past. But Yvette's celebration was cut short when, just days later, her nephew was gunned down by a neo-Nazi. As Yvette and her family wrestled with their own tragedy, the lessons she learned from the survivors of the Holocaust-and her unending quest to honor the islanders who risked everything-taught Yvette that even in the midst of unimaginable pain, beautiful things can still happen. At once a very personal memoir and an ambitious account of the untold history of the Greek Jews, Something Beautiful Happened is a nuanced story about the power of faith, the importance of kindness, and the courage to stand up for what's right, no matter the cost. Book jacket., Seventy years after her grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during World War II, a woman sets out to track down their descendants--and discovers a new way to understand tragedy, forgiveness, and the power of kindness in "an 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 ). 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 )., 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 ).
