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

    Written by Yvette Manessis Corporon

    Narrated by Pam Turlow

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    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 descendants—and discovers a new way to understand tragedy, forgiveness, and the power of kindness.

    Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmother’s stories about how the people of the small Greek island Erikousa hid a Jewish family—a tailor named Savvas and his daughters—from 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 couldn’t 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 her best hopes, she was forced to confront the fact that seventy years after the Nazis were defeated, it was still happening today.

    As Yvette and her family wrestled 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.

    In beautifully told interweaving storylines, the past and present come together in a nuanced, heartfelt story about the power of faith, the importance of kindness, and the courage to stand up for what’s right in the face of great evil.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOasis Audio
    Release dateSep 12, 2017
    ISBN9781621887485
    Author

    Yvette Manessis Corporon

    Yvette Manessis Corporon is an internationally bestselling author and Emmy Award–winning producer. To date, her books have been translated into sixteen languages. A first generation Greek-American with deep family roots on Corfu, Yvette studied classical civilization and journalism at New York University. She lives in Brooklyn with her family where she spends her spare time reading, running, and trying to get into yoga. Visit her online at yvettecorporon.com; Instagram: @yvettecorporon; Twitter: @YvetteNY; Facebook: @YvetteManessisCorporonAuthor.

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      This book is about two stories which share nothing but for the tragically ironic. The first story is christians save Jewish family, and could be written as a decent medium sized article. The second, simply telling the story of a Kansas shooting from the prospective of a cousin I found I was put off its the voyueristic feeling and had to stop reading about sixty percent through the book.

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    • 5/5
      Touching, I loved listening to this book, story of faith, hope and love in the midst of adversity, love always wins against hate.