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Title La casa de los niños / Mario Escobar.
Author Escobar, Mario, 1971- author.
Publication Info. Barcelona : Ediciones B : Penguin Random House Gupo Editorial, 2022.
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Edition Primera edición, Enero de 2022.
Description 375 pages ; 23 cm
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unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Summary "Ámsterdam, 1942. En Holanda ya ondea la bandera nazi y miles de judíos aguardan el día de su deportación en lugares como el Teatro Hollandsche Shouwburg. El profesor Johan van Hulst es testigo de las condiciones en las que esperan los niños judíos, atemorizados y sin sustento, y es incapaz de quedarse impasible ante tanto sufrimiento. Para hacer frente a la tragedia, se pondrá en contacto con Henriëtte Pimentel -la directora de la guardería más cercana- y con Walter Süskind -el judío alemán obligado a redactar las listas de deportados-. Juntos diseñarán un entramado de pasadizos a través del cual intentarán salvar a los niños, mientras se esconden de los ojos de un régimen cada día más despiadado... A través del relato de una familia sefardí que intenta escapar de su horrible destino, Mario Escobar nos descubre la historia real de las personas que salvaron a más de seiscientos niños en el momento más feroz del nazismo. Grandiosa y conmovedora, esta novela rinde homenaje a todos aquellos héroes sin armas ni banderas que no dudaron en poner en peligro su vida por la de los demás" -- Provided by publisher.
Amsterdam, 1942. In the Netherlands the Nazi flag is already flying and thousands of Jews await the day of their deportation in places like the Hollandsche Shouwburg Theatre. Professor Johan van Hulst witnesses the conditions in which Jewish children wait, fearful and without sustenance, and is unable to remain unmoved in the face of so much suffering. To deal with the tragedy, he will contact Henri︠tte Pimentel -the director of the nearest nursery school- and Walter S kind -the German Jew forced to draw up the lists of deportees-. Together they will design a network of passageways through which they will try to save the children, while hiding from the eyes of an increasingly ruthless regime... Through the story of a Sephardic family trying to escape their horrible fate, Mario Escobar It reveals the true story of the people who saved more than six hundred children in the fiercest moment of Nazism. Great and moving, this novel pays tribute to all those heroes without arms or flags who did not hesitate to endanger their lives for the lives of others.
Note En español = In Spanish.
Subject Hulst, J. W. van (Johan Wilhelm), 1911- -- Fiction.
Suskind, Walter, 1906-1945 -- Fiction.
Pimentel, Henriëtte -- Fiction.
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Fiction.
Holocaust survivors -- Fiction.
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- Fiction.
Novela histórica.
Niños judíos en el Holocausto -- Novela.
Supervivientes del Holocausto -- Novela.
Gentiles justos durante el Holocausto -- Novela.
Genre Novela histórica.
Historical fiction.
Novelas his̤tricas.
Added Title House of children. Spanish
La casa de los niños
ISBN 9788466670715 (paperback) : $22.95
8466670718 (paperback)