Something Beautiful Happened Something Beautiful Happened

Something Beautiful Happened

A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil

    • 4.4 • 11 Ratings
    • $13.99
    • $13.99

Publisher Description

In this “engrossing peek into a little-known chapter of World War II, and one family’s harrowing tale of finding the lost pieces of its own history” (Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Liar Temptress Solider Spy), a woman sets out to track down the descendants of the Jewish family her grandmother helped hide seventy years earlier.

Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmother’s stories about how the people of the small Greek island Erikousa hid a Jewish family—a tailor named Savvas and his daughters—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 couldn’t get the story of the Jewish tailor out of her head. She decided to track down the man’s descendants—and eventually found them in Israel. Their tearful reunion was proof to her that evil doesn’t always win. But just days after she made the connection, her cousin’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 “story of compassion and collective resistance” with “undeniable emotional power” (Kirkus Reviews).

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2017
September 12
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Howard Books
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
46.8
MB
We Share the Same Sky We Share the Same Sky
2021
Sala's Gift Sala's Gift
2006
I Want You to Know We're Still Here I Want You to Know We're Still Here
2020
Kiss the Red Stairs Kiss the Red Stairs
2022
My Friend Anne Frank My Friend Anne Frank
2023
Heartwood Heartwood
2021
Where the Wandering Ends Where the Wandering Ends
2022
When the Cypress Whispers When the Cypress Whispers
2014
Peeing in Peace Peeing in Peace
2008
Daughter of Ruins Daughter of Ruins
2024
Um romance grego Um romance grego
2015
Das Wunder von Errikousa Das Wunder von Errikousa
2020
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
2018
Grass Is Singing Grass Is Singing
2013
The Goddess of Warsaw The Goddess of Warsaw
2024
The Return (Pulitzer Prize Winner) The Return (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
2016
The Storm We Made The Storm We Made
2024
Abide with Me Abide with Me
2006