This is the first in-depth study of the rescue of Jewish children in Belgium during the Holocaust. Although the title focuses on nuns, Suzanne Vromen—a sociologist—interviewed 28 survivors, eight nuns, two resisters, and one priest, providing a comprehensive, readable, and balanced analysis of the fears, motivations, and dangers faced by all involved. The opening chapter focuses on the children, particularly their struggles with being left by their families; arriving at the convents; adapting to strict, Catholic regimens; coping with pressures—sometimes put upon them, sometimes self-induced—to convert; and re-adapting to life after the war. Chapter 2 is devoted to the challenges the nuns faced from hiding Jewish children, including the issue of responsibility for accepting the children, the need to instruct them quickly to avoid denunciation, the effort required to fend off Nazis and collaborators, and the tension between their humanitarian impulse to save the children and their Christian impulse to convert Jews. Vromen shows the nuns to be intelligent, devout individuals who mostly accepted the challenges of hiding Jewish children without the support or knowledge of their superiors in the Belgian Catholic Church. Chapter 3 examines those people in the resistance—Jews and non-Jews—who risked their lives acting as couriers and conduits between scared, forlorn families and the convents in order to save Jewish children. The final chapter is devoted to memory and commemoration, especially how these heroic acts were initially ignored but later recognized and memorialized by Jewish and Catholic organizations alike.