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Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey, Library Edition
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Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey, Library Edition
David Horowitz
Manufacturer: Blackstone Audiobooks
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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Rituals of Healing: Using Imagery for Health and Wellness
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Rituals of Healing

I found this book very helpful

Super book on healing through imagery

A great guide to aid the reader in using visualization

Rituals of Healing: Using Imagery for Health and Wellness
Jeanne Achterberg , and Barbara Dossey
Manufacturer: Bantam
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Binding: Paperback

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Rituals of Healing.......2007-10-11

Excellent resource. I am a holistic practitioner working with clients in various stages of wellness and some in hospice. I keep a copy on hand to lend or give to friends, relatives, clients who are (or are close to someone who is) preparing for surgery, recovering from injuries or illness, dealing with health issues, or in the process of dying.

I found this book very helpful.......2002-09-22

My 10 year old grandson has leukemia and is currently hospitalized for it. I used this book to help him visualize his immune system and create a healing experience. I haven't found much out there that is actually written for kids (this book is also a guide for adults), but it's easy to adapt what there is in this book to fit your child's situation with a just a little effort and imagination. I found the examples very encouraging and helpful as well. Following the examples of paintings and drawings found in the book...I think this helped him feel more in control over the disease.

Super book on healing through imagery.......2001-08-26

I appreciated this book so much that after checking it out from the library I decided to buy it. It describes the ritual process step-by-step, and offers great guided imagery scripts. I believe there is a strong connection between the body and the mind, and this book affirms it.

A great guide to aid the reader in using visualization.......1999-06-29

I have scanned a friend's copy of this book, and must buy my own. The imagery scripts are detailed, but simple to use on your own with practice. The book contains a comprehensive section on the immune system, which I found very helpful. We all are learning that the mind-body connection is where healing truly takes place. This book helps you find that place within yourself and walks you down a path of self-discovery.

The Best Of Irish Breads & Baking: Traditional, Contemporary & Festive
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Excellent General Manual on Irish Baking. Buy It!

really nice cookbook!

Neat Book straight from Ireland!

Well worth it!

The Best Of Irish Breads & Baking: Traditional, Contemporary & Festive
Georgina Campbell
Manufacturer: Georgina Campbell Guides
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 190316415X

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It is often said that bread is the stuff of life, but it is high time to forget about store-bought bread and indulge in a little home baking! The Best of Irish Breads and Baking delights in the wonders of home baking by gathering together the best recipes of both traditional and contemporary recipes. Breads and Baking covers all aspects of the baking process, from the very best of breads, bracks, scones, puddings and preserves to their storage, usage, and life span.

An invaluable delight to both professional and novice alike, the author includes a fascinating history of the Irish breadmaking tradition. Recipes range from old favorites, such as Irish brown soda bread, blackberry jelly, Irish tea-cake and Irish whiskey cake to the more unusual treats such as Ballylickey Yummy Cake and Ballymaloe Walnut Meringue.

A very useful aspect of The Best of Irish Breads and Baking will be the "Festive Fares" section which contains recipes which can be used on many festive occasions like Hallowe'en, Christmas, Easter and Irish style Weddings.

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Excellent General Manual on Irish Baking. Buy It!.......2006-02-24

`The Best of Irish Breads & Baking' by Georgina Campbell, sponsored by the Irish company, Shamrock Foods, is the third book of Irish baking I have reviewed, and it nicely fits between the areas covered by Tim Allen's `The Ballymaloe Bread Book' and Margaret M. Johnson's `Irish Puddings, Tarts, Crumbles, and Fools'. Before comparing the three books in detail, I'll survey Ms. Campbell's contents.

This is a very nicely sized, relatively inexpensive book, listing at $15 or 15 euros which concentrates, like Ms. Johnson, on recipes from local Irish baking and hospitality establishments.

The chapters, with virtually no surprises, are:

Soda Breads and Scones, confirming once again that THE classic Irish bread is a brown soda bread and not the familiar Irish-American all white flour soda bread. I was pleased to find, however, a recipe for that familiar Irish-American soda bread with many flavorings added. One of the more unusual sections in this chapter is a method for making buttermilk from skimmed milk and yeast. I find immense irony in this method, as yeast is being used to make an ingredient for a yeastless quick bread. It also gives the yogurt method for making buttermilk, but makes no mention of the quick sour milk method or of powdered `instant buttermilk' products.

Hot Off the Griddle covers things which many people may not consider `baking' as they are recipes to be made from batters on top of the stove, including cakes made from batters with oats, potatoes (for boxty), apples, and flour. If you happen to be a big breakfast fan, this chapter may alone be worth the price of admission.

Tea Breads, Bracks, & Buns cover what in the United States would tend to be lumped together as muffins and their allies such as gingerbread and fruit breads.

Yeast Breads explores baking with packaged yeasts, either fresh brewer's yeast or dried yeast packets. One interesting fact in this chapter is that Irish wheat is soft, much like that from the southern United States such as White Lily flour. The explanation for the Irish love of soda bread is not this, but the fact that few Irish households had the kinds of ovens needed for baking yeasted breads. This may not be complete, as the same could probably be said of Italy, one of the capitals of yeasted bread traditions. While this chapter focuses on native Irish recipes, there are a fair number of imports from the Mediterranean using things like onion and garlic in the breads.

Cakes and Biscuits is the chapter which contains the recipes for the kind of seed cakes and biscuits which Bilbo Baggins probably served to Thorin Oakenshield, his band of dwarfs, and Gandalf the wizard in that magical moment at the beginning of the novel, `The Hobbit'. If you are a Tolkien fan, this chapter alone may be worth the book. Note that biscuits, here, is the English sense of biscuits as `cookies' and not what we recognize as, for example, southern buttermilk biscuits, which are much more similar to Irish scones.

Pastry and Puddings involves another English / Irish usage which may be unfamiliar to Americans, as `puddings' here refers primarily to desserts, primarily those made with custards. Oddly, the lion's share of recipes in this chapter are for cakes, pies, and tarts, rather than custard based desserts. There is another fair share of European influence in recipes for strudel (Austrian) and frangipane (French).

Festive Fare is one of my favorite kinds of chapters, as it gives recipes for occasions where you get an excuse to bake something delicious and fattening. I'm especially fond of these Irish dishes, as they contain the mother lode of inspirations for mincemeat pies and fruitcakes. The emphasis here is on Christmas, Easter, and Halloween, our favorite culinary holidays other than Thanksgiving.

If you have room for only one book on Irish baking, especially if you don't have a lot of books on general baking techniques, this is the best of the three books I cite here. Tim Allen's Ballymaloe book ranges far beyond Ireland, because his focus is what is made at the Ballymaloe restaurants for their guests, not what is traditional in Ireland. Thus, he includes a chapter on sourdough plus chapters on major Italian specialties such as pizza. Ms. Campbell does not touch sourdough (using natural yeasts) at all. Since Campbell covers both desserts and bread baking, it is also more general than Johnson's book on desserts. And, Campbell goes into a bit more detail on general baking technique, although not as much as the great bread baking specialists such as Peter Reinhart.

I am especially happy to say all measurements are in both metric and English systems and for things like flour, both weight (lb or grams) and volumetric (cups) units are given. This is another reason to pick this book if you can only have one. Otherwise, all three books have much to offer.

Highly recommended.

really nice cookbook!.......2006-02-01

I used a friend's copy of this book for a specific recipe (whole wheat banana bread). I've tried many of the other recipes and I've not found one I don't like. I HAD to buy my own copy. The food is tasty, appealing and chock full of healthy ingredients. It's nice to find a cookbook with so much variety and great alternatives to grocrey store premade baked item. This is a keeper!!!

Neat Book straight from Ireland!.......2002-03-16

This is NO ripoff. It's the real deal. Straight from the Irish presses and shipped to America. The breads and baked goods are authentic and unbelieveably delicious. I can't praise it enough for its authenticity.

Well worth it!.......2001-02-06

This book is an excellent choice for the person who is interested in authentic Irish baking. There are many variations on the traditional brown bread and all I have tried taste really good. The recipes are easy to follow and a lot come from top guest houses. The "Irish Apple Cake" is wonderful and freezes beautifully. It also has a few Irish American recipes along side the traditional versions. The scones, sweet breads - in fact everything I have baked from this book has been wonderful.

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good food

Best of Irish Cooking
Alex Barker
Manufacturer: Gramercy
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0517218380
Release Date: 2002-02-26

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With more than 100 mouth-watering traditional Irish recipes, this superb cookbook includes how to make Irish Fry, Soda Bread, Irish Stew, Spiced Beef and Cabbage, Dublin Coddle (an Irish specialty made with bacon, sausage, onion, and potatoes), Concannon (a Halloween dish), Elderflower Fritters, Irish Coffee Pudding, and more. Large format and illustrated throughout with four-color photographs.

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good food.......2007-01-10

when you can find all of the ingredients. many are hard to find.

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Recipes with toasts, wisdom sayings, and Irish drink history

Best Irish Drinks
Ray Foley
Manufacturer: Sourcebooks, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 140220678X

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"The Best Irish Drinks delivers countless recipes of cocktails straight from the Emerald Isle. Also included is information about Irish liquors, as well as famous Irish sayings and toasts.

Ray Foley is the ultimate authority on bartending. He is the publisher of Bartender magazine, the No. 1 magazine in circulation for the bartending trade. This book is the result of his years of experience working with bartenders.

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Recipes with toasts, wisdom sayings, and Irish drink history.......2006-05-23

There are numerous cocktail cookbooks on the market already, but several things differentiate the pocket-tote-sized THE BEST IRISH DRINKS from others. First, they come directly from Ireland and thus represent authentic flavors based on the use of Irish liquors and ingredients. Second, its focus on recipes over flash assures 300 are packed into here and not watered down by the usual color glitter of the cocktail glass. Third, it rounds out recipes with toasts, wisdom sayings, and Irish drink history. What more could you want?

Diane C. Donovan, Editor
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Best Irish Festive Cooking (Best of Irish Cookery)

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Best Irish Festive Cooking (Best of Irish Cookery)
Biddy White-Lennon
Manufacturer: O'Brien
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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From the Oyster Festival in Galway to the Strawberry Festival in Wexford, from St. Patricks Day to Michaelmas, from Christmas pudding to food for wakes, the background folklore given for each recipe is as vibrantly interesting as the recipes themselves: Spring Tonic Nettle Soup takes its place near a St. Valentines recipe for Chocolate Almond Tart; the colorful cocktail recipe Irish Flag nestles next to two hearty recipes for Colcannon (one with kale and one with cabbage); Peat Moss-Smoked Beef Filet precedes a Whiskey Cream Christening Cake.

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Best of Ireland (Cook's Essentials)
Matthew Drennan
Manufacturer: Southwater
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1842151304

Best of Irish Breads and Baking: Traditional, Contemporary and Festive

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Best of Irish Breads and Baking: Traditional, Contemporary and Festive
Georgina Campbell
Manufacturer: Georgina Campbell Guides
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Best of Irish Cooking

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THE BEST OF IRISH COOKING: Tempting Recipes for All Occasions

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THE BEST OF IRISH COOKING: Tempting Recipes for All Occasions

Manufacturer: Gill & Macmillan
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000I11W0I

Best of Irish Home Baking (Best of Irish)

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Best of Irish Home Baking (Best of Irish)
Biddy White Lennon
Manufacturer: O'Brien
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Best of Irish Meat Recipes (Best of Irish)

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A cookbook collection of over fifty inspirational recipes for the gourmet with a taste for Irish flavor

Best of Irish Meat Recipes (Best of Irish)
Biddy White Lennon
Manufacturer: O'Brien
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Binding: Paperback

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Book Description

Paper, 96 pp. Meat has been central to Irish food culture for thousands of years. These fifty inspiring recipes feature beef, lamb, pork, poultry, game, and dishes using cured, spiced and smoked meats. There are traditional dishes such as Irish stew, Michaelmas roast goose, Bacon and cabbage; local specialities like Cork crubeens and Dingle pies. Recipes from leading Irish chefs put a modern twist on traditional dishes: Roast loin of farmed boar stuffed with poitín-soaked prunes and black-pudding mash, Beef and oyster pies with stout, Air-dried Connemara lamb with wild Irish salad, Beef fillet baked in a turf crust, Roast haunch of venison with rowan jelly.

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A cookbook collection of over fifty inspirational recipes for the gourmet with a taste for Irish flavor.......2006-09-09

Best Of Irish Meat Recipes is a cookbook collection of over fifty inspirational recipes for the gourmet with a taste for Irish flavor. From beef, lamb, pork, and poultry, to game and dishes that use cured, spiced, or smoked meats, Best Of Irish Meat Recipes does not disappoint in its sumptuous suggestions and explicit instructions. Some recipes for more exotic meats also offer substitutions of easier-to-find types of meat. From Tripe and Onions, to Roast Haunch of Venison, Bacon and Cabbage, Smoked Duck with Beetroot and Orange, and more, Best Of Irish Meat Recipes is enthusiastically recommended for preparing sumptuous dinners in the Irish tradition.

HORSES THEIR SELECTION, CARE AND HANDLING
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HORSES THEIR SELECTION, CARE AND HANDLING

Manufacturer: A.S. Barnes and Company, Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover
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Horses Their Selection, Care and Handling
Margaret Cabell Self
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ASIN: 0668027797

Horses, Their Selection, Care and Handling (Horse Lovers' Library)
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Horses, Their Selection, Care and Handling (Horse Lovers' Library)

Manufacturer: Wilshire Book Company
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HYSV64

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Eleven chapters discussing the care horses. Including first aid, grooming, stable upkeep, riding, showing and more.

HORSES: Their Selection, Care and Handling

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HORSES: Their Selection, Care and Handling
Margaret Cabell Self
Manufacturer: A. S. Barnes & Co.
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Binding: Hardcover
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Horses: Their Selection, Care and Handling
Margaret Cabell Self
Manufacturer: A S Barnes and Company
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Horses; Their Selection, Care and Handling
Margaret Cabell Self
Manufacturer: A S Barnes & Co, NY
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O6APVE

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HORSES THEIR SELECTION, CARE AND HANDLING
Magaret Cabell Self
Manufacturer: A.S. Barnes & Co.
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Horses. Their selection, care and handling
M. Cabell Self
Manufacturer: A. S. Barnes and Company, Inc.
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Horses: Their Selection, Care and Handling
Margaret Self
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ASIN: B000OKHCSY

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Horses: Their Selection, Care and Handling
Margaret Cabell Self
Manufacturer: A.S. Barnes and Company [ca. 1960]
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ASIN: B000KT7QI0

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33 Contemporary Swedish Weaving Patterns for Monks' Cloth is 64 pages long and contains 33 patterns for Swedish Weaving or Huck Embroidery. All patterns can be stitched on monk's cloth, Huck toweling, Aida cloth or any other even-weave fabric. Each pattern has detailed instructions and a color photographs for each pattern. Also included are helpful hints such as fabric preparation, terms, stitching techniques, color and design. There are patterns for the beginner all the way up to the advanced stitcher. Paper is also included to make up your own designs. With these patterns you can make items such as, throw blankets, baby blankets, table runners and place mats. Also included is a pattern for a Christmas Tree Skirt.

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Easy for beginner, yet complicated patterns also !.......2000-06-08

This book is diverse within types of patterns from Southwestern to tummbling teddybears to a gentle lilac, one can imangine the softness and feel of these through the pictures. Ideas on color and finishing are very clear and opportuninites for different projects just make laundy, grocery shopping, cleaning and those special cleaning projects just seem less important in the long run. With results of lovely peices to grace that favorite easy chair, or over the back of sofa along with matching pillows. Such a quiet lovely hobby, not difficult, and I am convinced could help to woman keep her sanity in todays instant paced world. A good take along project while waiting for summer trains, planes and endless swimming lessons, baseball practices and the constant parade of "things" that keep us on the run. Now I can take my own piece of mind around with me these projects, a walkman and a diet coke! Let's here it for woman's survival!

Easy for beginner, yet complicated patterns also !.......2000-06-08

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Jackson & Perkins is the leading brand of roses in America. Through years of development, Jackson & Perkins now offers roses that have characteristics that allow gardeners to enjoy roses without all the maintenance requirements.

Jackson & Perkins Beautiful Roses Made Easy is available in regional editions and explains how roses can now be easy to grow and enjoy in any part of the country.

Some gardeners have avoided roses assuming that they were too tricky, fussy, and difficult to grow. This book will help gardeners identify the roses that are easy to grow in their region of the country, and also give tips on how to care for and maintain them.

Through six regional editions, Jackson & Perkins Beautiful Roses Made Easy explains how breeding and testing provide modern-day roses that are much easier to grow, with better results.

Regional editions give readers specific information on growing conditions in their area and the best roses for those conditions.

Eating Healthy For Healthy Baby: A Month-by-Month Guide to Nutrition During Pregnancy
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Eating Healthy For Healthy Baby: A Month-by-Month Guide to Nutrition During Pregnancy
Fred Plotkin
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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Release Date: 1994-04-26

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A noted gourmet and gynecologist team up for a completely up-to-date, month-by-month nutritional guide and cookbook for pregnant women. Combining the principles of good nutrition during pregnancy with tantalizing, easy-to-prepare recipes the whole family will enjoy, this book explores the nine months of pregnancy and reveals what to eat at each stage to maximize the health of your baby. Line drawings.

An American Painter in Paris: Gerald Murphy
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An American Painter in Paris: Gerald Murphy
Rick Stewart
Manufacturer: Dallas Museum of Art
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Binding: Paperback

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An American painter in Paris: Gerald Murphy : February 16-April 20, 1986 [Dallas Museum of Art
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Stewart Rick
Manufacturer: The Museum
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B00071RI8O

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Rescuing the Children is the autobiography of an extraordinary woman, the history of a remarkable organization she worked for in World War II France, and a portrait of children in severe psychological distress. The organization was the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE, or Society for Assistance to Children), which saved thousands of Jewish children in France from deportation to Nazi extermination camps. These children were either hidden among non-Jewish families, placed in the eighteen children's homes run by the OSE, or selected to escape clandestinely to the neutral countries of Switzerland or Spain. Due to the efforts of the OSE and like-minded organizations, both Jewish and non-Jewish, about 86 percent of the Jewish children in France survived the Holocaust. One of the outstanding representatives of the OSE was Vivette Samuel. At the age of twenty-two she accepted the position of resident social worker in the camp of Rivesaltes, set up by the Vichy government to intern foreign "undesirables." Her daunting task was to obtain the interned parents' written consent that would permanently separate them from their children so that the latter would live. In a period of six months, she was thus able to liberate nearly 400 foreign-born children from the camp. Samuel brought to this job great intelligence, linguistic fluency, and a character both deeply compassionate and steely in its resolution. She applied these qualities to the other tasks she performed for the OSE outside the camp after May 1942 and repeatedly risked arrest by the Gestapo. Elie Wiesel and Charles B. Paul were among the children helped by the OSE. Their contributions to this book are a tribute of gratitude to Vivette Samuel and her heroic colleagues.

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Little known saga.......2006-11-06

This was a very interesting memoir of something that I hadn't known about: camps in France to house, not French jews, but those fleeing from eastern europe and germany. The writer had a great deal of courage! Well done.

Rescuing the Children: A Holocaust Memoir

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Rescuing the Children: A Holocaust Memoir
Vivette (Author) Paul, Charles B. (Translator) Wiesel, Elie (Foreword by) Samuel
Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORKGC6

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