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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Interesting memoir of a young Jewish political activist in the years leading up to WWII and the occupation of France. Lisa and her husband took many incredible risks to help others out of France and to get themselves out as well. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Though it reads like a suspense novel, this memoir is Lisa Fittko's extraordinary story of life as an "enemy alien" in France before and after the German invasion of 1940. Escaping a French prison, Fittko and her husband found their way to the Pyrenees and, while awaiting permission to enter Spain, helped hundreds of refugees, including Walter Benjamin, escape deportation, torture, and death at the hands of the Nazis. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.53History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- World War IILC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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