Difference between revisions of "Robert Finaly (M / France, 1941), Holocaust survivor"
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* <[[Hidden Children]]> | '''Robert M. Finaly''' (M / France, 1941), Holocaust survivor. | ||
* Older brother of [[Gerald Finaly]] (M / France, 1942) | |||
* KEYWORDS : <[[Hidden Children]]> <[[Baptized Children]]> | |||
* MEMOIRS : see ''In the Shadow of Vichy: The Finaly Affair'' (2008), by Joyce Block Lazarus. | |||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Born in 1941 in Grenoble, France. In March 1944 his parents were deported to Auschwitz, and Robert and his younger brother Gad (Gerald) were placed in the city’s Catholic children’s home. The manager of the institution cared for them but refused to return them to their family after the war, instead baptizing them to Christianity. After a five-year legal battle by the boys’ aunts — during which they were hidden in various Catholic institutions in Italy and Spain — the boys were returned to their families, and emigrated to Israel to live with their aunt. Today, Robert has 2 sons and a grandson. | Born in 1941 in Grenoble, France. In March 1944 his parents were deported to Auschwitz, and Robert and his younger brother Gad (Gerald) were placed in the city’s Catholic children’s home. The manager of the institution cared for them but refused to return them to their family after the war, instead baptizing them to Christianity. After a five-year legal battle by the boys’ aunts — during which they were hidden in various Catholic institutions in Italy and Spain — the boys were returned to their families, and emigrated to Israel to live with their aunt. Today, Robert has 2 sons and a grandson. | ||
== Book : ''In the Shadow of Vichy: The Finaly Affair'' (2008), by Joyce Block Lazarus == | |||
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, a judicial case involving the custody of two Jewish orphans mushroomed into a major crisis of Jewish-Christian relations in France. A New York Times journalist called this affair «the worst religious storm of post-war France». The Finaly Affair (1945-1953), which is best understood in the context of post-Vichy anti-Semitism, came about when Catholic fundamentalist beliefs came into conflict with France’s republican principles. This affair polarized the French nation and was transformed into a national crisis by the explosive power of the French press. It had lasting consequences for interfaith relations in France and for the French Jewish community. In the Shadow of Vichy captures this astonishing story of how the Church’s kidnapping of two Jewish children just after World War II helped to hasten the revolutionary changes of Vatican II. | |||
[[Category:Holocaust Children, 1941 (subject)|1941 Finaly]] | |||
[[Category:Hidden Children (subject)|1941 Finaly]] | |||
Revision as of 10:30, 12 September 2020
Robert M. Finaly (M / France, 1941), Holocaust survivor.
- Older brother of Gerald Finaly (M / France, 1942)
- KEYWORDS : <Hidden Children> <Baptized Children>
- MEMOIRS : see In the Shadow of Vichy: The Finaly Affair (2008), by Joyce Block Lazarus.
Biography
Born in 1941 in Grenoble, France. In March 1944 his parents were deported to Auschwitz, and Robert and his younger brother Gad (Gerald) were placed in the city’s Catholic children’s home. The manager of the institution cared for them but refused to return them to their family after the war, instead baptizing them to Christianity. After a five-year legal battle by the boys’ aunts — during which they were hidden in various Catholic institutions in Italy and Spain — the boys were returned to their families, and emigrated to Israel to live with their aunt. Today, Robert has 2 sons and a grandson.
Book : In the Shadow of Vichy: The Finaly Affair (2008), by Joyce Block Lazarus
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, a judicial case involving the custody of two Jewish orphans mushroomed into a major crisis of Jewish-Christian relations in France. A New York Times journalist called this affair «the worst religious storm of post-war France». The Finaly Affair (1945-1953), which is best understood in the context of post-Vichy anti-Semitism, came about when Catholic fundamentalist beliefs came into conflict with France’s republican principles. This affair polarized the French nation and was transformed into a national crisis by the explosive power of the French press. It had lasting consequences for interfaith relations in France and for the French Jewish community. In the Shadow of Vichy captures this astonishing story of how the Church’s kidnapping of two Jewish children just after World War II helped to hasten the revolutionary changes of Vatican II.