In the shadows of Paris : the Nazi concentration camp that dimmed the city of light /
'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 Holocaus...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Diego :
Kales Press,
[2021].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | '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. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published as "La rafle des notables" by Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle, 2020. |
| Physical Description: | 117 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781733395861 1733395865 |