Word: bruns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Court of France-when a black-robed justice read a decree upholding the decision of a lower court: Robert and Gerald Finaly, whose Jewish parents had died in a Nazi concentration camp, should be raised by their Jewish kinsmen rather than by their Roman Catholic foster mother, Antoinette Brun. For weeks before the court decision, France...
Maman v. the Aunts. The problem was a curious mixture of religion and nationality. The orphaned Finaly boys were taken in by Mile. Antoinette Brun, a goodhearted woman, active in Catholic church circles, who ran the Grenoble foundling home. She grew to love them as the "most abandoned" of all her charges. In 1945, she took the first legal steps toward adopting them. Three years later, she had them baptized as Catholics...
...boys' Jewish parents, however, had relatives, and they wanted Robert and Gerald as badly as Mile. Brun did. First, a sister of Dr. Finaly's wrote from New Zealand, asking that the children be sent to her. Then, in 1949, a mandate from the Finaly kin was presented in a French court. It asked that the boys be sent to another aunt, Mme. Hedwige Ressner, now living in Israel...
...told friends he wanted his boys to stay in France. He had them circumcised, but no one knew whether on religious or medical grounds. Nothing was said about their being raised as Jews or Christians. Robert and Gerald, in their turn, said they wanted to stay with "maman"-Mile. Brun. Ultimately, however, the court decided fo Mme. Rossner...
Police v. Basques. Antoinette Brun refused to give the boys up. She was put in jail on Jan. 29 for kidnaping, but Rober and Gerald were not to be found in Grenoble. They had disappeared, shepherded by some of their "maman's" Catholic friends, who thought it scandalous that children, baptized in the church, should be raised as Jews in Israel...