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The Spiral Shell: A French Village Reveals Its Secrets of Jewish Resistance in World War II

By Sandell Morse

Book information

Publisher
Inc., Schaffner Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781943156931, 9781943156924
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1097300 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-05-04 18:33:23

Description

April 2020 will mark the 80th Anniversary of the fall of France to Nazi Germany, and the establishment of the provisional government of the Vichy state, a puppet of the Axis regime, to carry out the arrest and deportation of all Jewish civilians. In the course of her writing residency over a three-year period in the village of Auvillar, the author learns of acts of bravery and rebellion on the part of several of the Jewish families and individuals who risked their lives to save innocent refugees and children orphaned by the Holocaust, and gradually gains their trust enough for them to share the details of their harrowing experiences of rebellion and resistance. The author in turn discovers truths about her own life and Jewish heritage in America, which she now sees in the light of the bravery and selflessness of those who elected to act and not stand by idly in the face of oppression and genocide.

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