Word: maman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Please, Maman," he said to his foster mother when she returned triumphant from court, "what's going to happen...
...would be snow-white if I didn't dye it." She dreaded giving up Paul, but she could not resist claiming Ernstli. After the boys were switched back to their real mothers, Ernstli wept for days, but soon stopped addressing Mrs. Joye as "Madame" and started calling her "Maman." Mrs. Joye's unpretentious account is bound to give imaginative parents plenty to think about next time they take a baby home from the maternity ward...
...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...
...Finaly had 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...