In the shadows of Paris: the Nazi concentration camp that dimmed the city of light
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Beteilige Person: Sinclair, Anne 1948- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Norton [2021]
Ausgabe:First edition
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Abstract:"'This story has haunted me since I was a child,' begins Anne Sinclair in a personal journey to find answers about her own life and about her grandfather's, Léonce Schwartz. What her tribute reveals is part memoir, part historical documentation of a lesser known chapter of the Holocaust: the Nazi's mass arrest, in French the word for this is rafle and there is no equivalent in English that captures the horror, on Dec. 12, 1941 of influential Jews--the doctors, professors, artists and others at the upper levels of French society--who were then imprisoned just fifty miles from Paris in the Compiègne-Royallieu concentration camp. Those who did not perish there, were taken by the infamous one-way trains to Auschwitz; except for the few to escape that fate. Léonce Schwartz was among them"--
Beschreibung:Originally published as "La rafle des notables" by Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle, 2020
Umfang:117 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen
ISBN:9781733395861