The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground by Rosenberg, Justus

London: Collins, 2021. 1st. thus PBK Index 288pp. + 26 b/w plates + 3 maps. VG.

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William Collins, 2021-04-15. Paperback. Used: Good.

William Collins, 2021-04-15. Paperback. Used:Good.

New. A gripping memoir written by a 96-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor about his escape from Nazi-occupied Poland in the 1930's and his adventures with the French Resistance during World War II In 1937, as the Nazi Party tightened its grip on the city of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland), Justus Rosenberg's parents made the wrenching decision to send their son to Paris, where he would have the hope of finishing high school and going on to university in safety. He was sixteen years old, and he would not see his family again for sixteen years more. Even after war broke out in 1939, life in France was peaceful for a time-but when the Nazis pushed toward Paris in the spring of 1940, Justus was forced to flee south to Toulouse. There, a chance meeting put Justus in contact with Varian Fry, the American journalist who ran a refugee network that aided several thousand Jews in escaping Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. With his German background, understanding of French… Read More

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