In the shadows of Paris : the Nazi concentration camp that dimmed the city of light / Anne Sinclair ; Sandra Smith, translator.
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- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781733395861
- 1733395865
- Nazi concentration camp that dimmed the city of light
- Rafle des notables. English
- Schwartz, Léonce
- Royallieu (Transit camp) -- Biography
- Nazi concentration camp inmates -- France -- Compiègne -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, French
- Jews -- France -- Paris -- Biography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- France
- Nazi concentration camps -- France -- History
- Paris (France) -- Biography
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"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.
Originally published as "La rafle des notables" by Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle, 2020.
Includes bibliographical references.
The Arrest -- The "Jewish Camp" -- Living and Dying at Compiègne-Royallieu -- Changing Fortunes.
"'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"-- Provided by publisher.