A place to hide : a novel

Title A place to hide : a novel
Names Balson, Ronald H.
Book Number DB125462
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Books
Annotation "From the winner of the National Jewish Book AwardTheodore "Teddy" Hartigan is the scion of a wealthy Washington, D.C. family who place him into a comfortable job at the State Department and a placid diplomat's career. In 1938, as Hitler's inexorable rise continues, Teddy is re-assigned to the US Consulate in Amsterdam to replace fleeing staff.Teddy's job is to process visa applications, and by 1939, refugees from Nazi-conquered Poland, Austria, and other countries are desperate to secure safe passage to America. As Hitler sweeps through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, and Holland, the screws tighten and law after virulent law is passed to threaten the lives, indeed the very existence of the Jewish people. When Teddy and his girlfriend Sara are introduced to an orphaned young girl named Katy, who has been abandoned on the grounds of a nursery school, they agree to adopt her. Teddy comes to realize that he holds the key to saving lives, whether five, fifty, or five hundred--and makes the dangerous and selfless decision to join with underground groups and use his position at the Consulate to rescue those with no other avenue of escape.Powerful and dramatic, National Jewish Book Award winner Ronald H. Balson's A Place to Hide explores the deeply-moving actions of an ordinary man who resolves, under perilous circumstances, to make a difference."-- From publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Narrator Berman, Fred.
Local Subject Exclusion - Male Narrator - MN
Exclusion - Short Book - SH
Historical Fiction - HIF
Historical Fiction - 20th Century - HIT
War-fiction or nonfiction - WAR
War-Fiction or Historical fiction only - WAF
War--World War Two - WWT
Holocaust - HLC
Religious fiction-scholarly or controv - RFI
Jewish Interest - JIN
LC Subject Diplomats - United States - Fiction
Americans - Netherlands - Fiction
Jewish refugees - Fiction
Orphans - Fiction
Adoption - Fiction
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust - Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 - Jews - Rescue - Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 - Underground movements - Netherlands - Fiction
Amsterdam (Netherlands) - Fiction
Historical fiction
Fiction
Call Number 813.6 AFI
Language English
Original Publication Reissue of: 2024 9781250353689 2024
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