Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Preface

       Prologue

  1.  Please Take My Children

  2.  Refuge in Belgium, 1938–1940

  3.  Second Escape, May 14, 1940

  4.  Life at Seyre, 1940

  5.  The “Secours Suisse aux Enfants” and a Tough Winter

  6.  The Belgian Angels’ Rescue Effort from across the Atlantic

  7.  Life at the Château de La Hille, 1941–1942

  8.  Internment and Liberation

  9.  Hazardous Journeys across Well-Guarded Borders

10.  The Noose Tightens and More Try to Escape

11.  Hidden and Surviving in France until the End

12.  New Faces at La Hille

13.  Those Who Helped and Those Who Hindered

14.  The Heroes of La Hille

15.  After the Liberation

       Acknowledgments

       Appendix: List of Twelve Who Were Deported and Murdered

       Historical Timeline

       Notes

       Index