Where is deborah barnes now

Debra Barnes is the debut author of The Young Survivors, which was inspired by her mother, Paulette, who was born in France in 1938. Since studying journalism in London, Debra has worked in a number of different communications roles as diverse as PR for Newcastle Brown Ale and internal communications manager for Mothercare. ​Debra joined The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) in 2017 to work on the My Story project. This initiative produces individual life-story books for Holocaust survivors and refugees with the participation of volunteers as interviewers. Debra said, "I wanted to write this story to shed light on the fate of Jews in France during the war, something which is not often considered. The book is dedicated to my mother who managed to live a full and happy life despite the horrors of the Holocaust. My extensive research included numerous trips to France where I visited my mother’s birthplace in Metz, the Jewish children’s homes and orphanages in Paris and Louveciennes, and the lady who looked after my mother in the orphanages and reunited with her sixty years la

Debra Dene Barnes

American music educator and former beauty pageant participant

Debra Snodgrass

Born

Debra Dene Barnes


(1947-09-06) September 6, 1947 (age 77)

Moran, Kansas, U.S

Alma materKansas State College (BA, MA)
TitleMiss America 1968
PredecessorJane Jayroe
SuccessorJudith Ford
Spouses

Mitchell Miles

(m. 1969)​

Bill Snodgrass

(died )​
Children2

Debra Dene Barnes (born September 6, 1947) is an American music educator and former beauty pageant participant who was crowned Miss America 1968.[1][2]

Early life and education

Born Debra Dene Barnes, she was raised in Moran, Kansas.[3] Upon graduation from high school, she attended the Kansas State College in Pittsburg, Kansas (now Pittsburg State University), where she majored in music. She then earned a Master's degree in Musical Performance, also from Kansas State College.

Pageantry

After winning the Miss Kansas pageant, she competed in the Miss A

What if everyone you loved was suddenly taken away? Five siblings struggle to stay together as the tides of war threaten to tear them apart.

When Germany invades and occupies France in the Second World War, the five Laskowski children lose everything: their home, their Jewish community and most devastatingly their parents who are abducted in the night. There is no safe place left for them to evade the Nazis, but they cling together, never certain when the authorities will come for what is left of them.

Inspired by the poignant, true story of the author's mother, this moving historical novel conveys the hardship, the uncertainty and the impossible choices the Laskowski children were forced to make to survive the horrors of the Holocaust.

The Young Survivors is the powerful debut novel by Debra Barnes.

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