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Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Élisabeth Gille was only five when the Gestapo arrested her mother, and she grew up remembering next to nothing of her. Her mother was a figure, a name, Irène Némirovsky , a once popular novelist, a Russian émigré from an immensely rich family, a Jew who didn't consider herself one and who even contributed to collaborationist periodicals, and a woman who died in Auschwitz because she was a Jew. To her daughter she was a tragic enigma and a stranger....
8) Lest innocent blood be shed: the story of the village of Le Chambon and how goodness happened there
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1994.
Edition
1st HarperPerennial ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 303 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"During the most terrible years of World War II, when inhumanity and political insanity held most of the world in their grip and the Nazi domination of Europe seemed irrevocable and unchallenged, a miraculous event took place in a small Protestant town in southern France called Le Chambon. There, quietly, peacefully, and in full view of the Vichy government and a nearby division of the Nazi SS, Le Chambon's villagers and their clergy organized to...
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