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The Art of Resistance My Four Years in the French Underground

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The Art of Resistance  My Four Years in the French Underground
The Art of Resistance My Four Years in the French Underground
epub | 17.69 MB | English | Author :Justus Rosenberg | 2020 | HarperCollins



Book Description :

An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and adventure: a former Eastern European Jew remembers his flight from the Holocaust and his extraordinary four years in the French underground. Justus Rosenberg, now 98, has taught literature at Bard College for the past fifty years.
In 1937, as the Nazis gained control and anti-Semitism spread in the Free City of Danzig, a majority German city on the Baltic Sea, sixteen-year-old Justus Rosenberg was sent to Paris to finish his education in safety. Three years later, France fell to the Germans. Alone and in danger, penniless, and cut off from contact with his family in Poland, Justus fled south. A chance meeting led him to Varian Fry, an American journalist in Marseille helping thousands of men and women, including many artists and intellectuals-among them Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, Andre Breton, and Max Ernst-escape the Nazis.
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Category : | Biographies of World War I, Jewish History, Biographies of World War II


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