Something Beautiful Happened
A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil
by Yvette Manessis Corporon
Pub Date 12 Sep 2017
Howard Books
Biographies & Memoirs
I am reviewing a copy of Something Beautiful Happened through Howard Books:
Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmother tell stories of how the people the small Greek island Erikousa hid a Jewish family—a tailor named Savvas and his daughters—from the Nazis during World War II. Close to 2000 Jews in the area died in concentration camps.
Yvette wasn’t able to 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 having the best of 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 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.
I give Something Beautiful Happened five out of five stars!
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