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

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.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 Wo...

By Yvette Manessis Corporon
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Howard Books (September 12, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781501161117
ISBN-13: 978-1501161117
ASIN: 1501161113
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 44457
Format: PDF ePub djvu ebook

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It is estimated that 65,000 Greek Jews were killed in the Holocaust. From the ghetto of Corfu, about 2,000 Jews were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, with only 121 surviving to return to their homeland. One Corfu Jewish family somehow escaped to

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