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In the Shadows of Paris|Anne Sinclair

In the Shadows of Paris : The Nazi Concentration Camp That Dimmed the City of Light

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"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 December 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.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781733395861
  • ISBN-10: 1733395865
  • Publisher: Kales Press
  • Publish Date: November 2021
  • Dimensions: 7.17 x 5.2 x 0.71 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.52 pounds
  • Page Count: 120

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