Lecture Laura Hobson Faure | Who Will Rescue Us? The Story of the Jewish Children Who Fled to France and America

Join us for a lecture by the historian Laura Hobson Faure on 24 June 2026 at 5pm at the Institute of Czech Literature of the CAS.

The lecture is coorganized by the EHRI-CZ and the project MYGRACE. The author will present her book Who Will Rescue Us? The Story of the Jewish Children Who Fled to France and America (Yale University Press, 2025) and her ongoing research on Jewish children in France and the United States during the Holocaust and its aftermath.

Hobson Faure will explore how several small Kindertransport initiatives sought to protect Jewish children from Nazi persecution by bringing them to France. After the Nazi occupation of France some of the children were then evacuated to the United States. Who Will Rescue Us? tells a complex story of children and families on the run and the adults and the organizations — Jewish, Christian, and secular — that helped them. Based on over a decade of research, the book gives life to children’s voices through their diaries and oral history interviews.

The lecture will be held in English.