Edhasa 2023

One of the most translated and widely read Spanish authors in the United States and fourteen other countries.

This impeccably documented narrative tells the incredible story of a woman determined to bring the truth to light. A novel based on real events that recovers one of the most moving testimonies of humanity and altruism.

This is the compelling story of Valérie Portheret, a woman who discovered in a forgotten archive the names of 108 children and dedicated the rest of her life to restoring their identities.

A young woman determined to reveal the truth.
Lyon, 1992. A student faces a country and a university eager to turn the page and leave the past behind. But the discovery of an old box containing the files of Jewish children, missing since the summer of 1942, motivates her to investigate her city’s past and rescue from oblivion a handful of anonymous heroes.

A group of ordinary people willing to risk everything.
Lyon, 1942. The Nazis have enacted the “Final Solution” and begin the mass deportation of hundreds of thousands of Jews from occupied countries, including France. Klaus Barbie, a cruel SS officer, has been ordered to expel all Jews from the region, but a group of men and women will attempt, in a desperate race against time, to save the youngest before it is too late.

Over a hundred lost children whose lives must be restored.
As flyers bearing the slogan “You will not take the children” circulate through the streets of Lyon, members of humanitarian organizations search for ways to save all minors under sixteen from the German concentration camps. A united people striving to safeguard their dignity and show the world that, even in the darkest hours, good can triumph over evil.