Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil - Yvette Corporon

Seventy years after her grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during World War II, a woman sets out to track down their descendantsand discovers a new way to understand tragedy, forgiveness, and the power of kindness in an engrossing peek into a little-known chapter of World War II, and one familys harrowing tale of finding the lost pieces of its own history (Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Liar Temptress Solider Spy). Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmothers stories about how the people of the small Greek island Erikousa hid a Jewish familya tailor named Savvas and his daughtersfrom 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 couldnt get the story of the Jewish tailor out of her head. She decided to track down the mans descendantsand eventually found them in Israel. Their tearful reunion was proof to her that evil doesnt always win. But just days after she made the connection, her cousins 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.

ISBN: 9781501161131

Pages: 305

Trade paperback

Howard Books,2018

Good condition

B19