Swastika over Paris

by Jeremy Josephs

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An account of the mass genocide of French Jews under the authority of Alois Bruenner, centering on the plight of two French Jewish families. The narrative relates the parallel stories of a rich Parisian Jew and a courageous teenage girl who fought with the Resistance. The publication of the book coincides with an international campaign to bring Bruenner to trial from Damascus where he is one of the last Nazi war criminals still to be living in freedom.… (more)

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NO OF PAGES: 192 SUB CAT I: Holocaust SUB CAT II: SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: During the occupation of France, 80,000 Jews, many of them children, were sent to the gas chambers. This is the story of those years. The author focuses on two widely different families.NOTES: SUBTITLE: The Fate of the Jews in France

BeitHallel | Feb 18, 2011 |

Gripping narratives intertwined relating the Occupation stories of the Rothchild family and of a teenager named Paulette Slifke who worked in the Paris resistance. It was through this book that I corresponded with and later met Paulette and Max Sarcey in 1997. She exemplifies courage, integrity, and moral uprightness to me and to the students with whom she has so heroically shared her witness of 13 months in Auschwitz. (

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An account of the mass genocide of French Jews under the authority of Alois Bruenner, centering on the plight of two French Jewish families. The narrative relates the parallel stories of a rich Parisian Jew and a courageous teenage girl who fought with the Resistance. The publication of the book coincides with an international campaign to bring Bruenner to trial from Damascus where he is one of the last Nazi war criminals still to be living in freedom.

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