Laura Hobson Faure presents Who Will Rescue Us?: The Story of the Jewish Children Who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust

In this lecture delivered on May 28, 2025, Laura Hobson Faure presents her new book Who Will Rescue Us? The Story of the Jewish Children Who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust, which represents the first account of Jewish children’s flight from Nazi Germany to France—and their subsequent escape to America from the Vichy regime.

Laura Hobson Faure brings to life the experiences of these children, and the Jewish and non-Jewish organizations who helped them. Drawing on survivors’ testimonies as well as children’s diaries, letters, drawings, songs, poems, and material from the JDC Archives, Who Will Rescue Us? re-creates their complex journeys, including how some of them eventually found safety in America.

Laura Hobson Faure is a professor at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University-Paris 1, where she holds the chair of Modern Jewish history and is a member of the Center for Social History (UMR 8058).

This program is co-sponsored by the Jewish Book Council. It is supported by Miriam “Mimi” Pasternak Toubin (z”l) Public Educational Programming from the JDC Archives.