Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage

Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil

Seventy years after her grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during World War II, a woman sets out to track down their descendantsâ€”and discovers a new way to understand tragedy, forgiveness, and the power of kindness in â€œan engrossing peek into a little-known chapter of World War II, and one familyâ€™s harrowing tale of finding the lost pieces of its own historyâ€ (Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Liar Temptress Solider Spy).

Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmotherâ€™s stories about how the people of the small Greek island Erikousa hid a Jewish familyâ€”a tailor named Savvas and his daughtersâ€”from the Nazis during World War II. Nearly 2,000 Jews from that area died in the concentration camps, but even though everyone on Erikousa knew Savvas and his family were hiding on the island, no one ever gave them up, and the family survived the war.

Years later, Yvette couldnâ€™t get the story of the Jewish tailor out of her head. She decided to track down the manâ€™s descendantsâ€”and eventually found them in Israel. Their tearful reunion was proof to her that evil doesnâ€™t always win. But just days after she made the connection, her cousinâ€™s child was gunned down in a parking lot in Kansas, a victim of a Neo-Nazi out to inflict as much harm as he could. Despite her best hopes, she was forced to confront the fact that seventy years after the Nazis were defeated, remainders of their hateful legacy still linger today.

As Yvette and her family wrestled with the tragedy in their own lives, the lessons she learned from the survivors of the Holocaust helped her confront and make sense of the present. In beautiful interweaving storylines, the past and present come together in a nuanced, heartfelt â€œstory of compassion and collective resistanceâ€ with â€œundeniable emotional powerâ€ (Kirkus Reviews).
Country USA
Manufacturer Howard Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-09-12
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Howard Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-09-12
Format	Kindle eBook

Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil

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