Petit Claude the Orphan of Auschwitz and His French Rescuers

This is the compelling true story of a four-year-old Jewish boy who was almost miraculously rescued from a Nazi prison on the way to Auschwitz, where both his parents died. A young French Christian couple sheltered him for three drama-filled years and came to love him almost as their own son. But, at the end of World War II, Petit Claude was uprooted again, and taken to live in what would soon become Israel. Contact with his French rescuers was lost for nearly fifty years. It was only after Petit Claude was found again a few years ago that the missing parts of his life could be told. How he overcame the tragic events of his early life makes an inspiring story. The author also interweaves the moving account of Claude's Jewish family's persecution in the Holocaust with the story of the Christian couple who risked their lives working in the underground French Resistance movement to save him and others from the Nazis.

Author: Agnes Holzapfel Seugnet

Publisher:  Xlibris Corporation

Released Date: 2001

ISBN: 9780738860695