Rosie Whitehouse

One summer's night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden and fought in forests, and endured death marches. Now they were taking on the Royal Navy, running the British blockade of Palestine. From Eastern Europe to Israel via Germany and Italy, Rosie Whitehouse follows in...

A riveting, poignant account of two young women—the author's own mother-in-law, and her sister—and their miraculous escape from the murderous authorities of Vichy France. When the Nazis invaded France in 1940, Marion and Huguette Müller's family was torn apart. After their mother was deported to Auschwitz, the two young Jewish women fled to the Alpine skiing town of Val d'Isère,...