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An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and adventure: a former Eastern European Jew remembers his flight from the Holocaust and his extraordinary four years in the French underground. Justus Rosenberg, now 98, has taught literature at Bard College for the past fifty years.
In 1937, as the Nazis gained control and anti-Semitism spread in the Free City of Danzig, a majority German city on the Baltic Sea, sixteen-year-old Justus Rosenberg was sent to Paris to finish his education in safety. Three years later, France fell to the Germans. Alone and in danger, penniless, and cut off from contact with his family in Poland, Justus fled south. A chance meeting led him to Varian Fry, an American journalist in Marseille helping thousands of men and women, including many artists and intellectualsâamong them Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, Andre Breton, and Max Ernstâescape the Nazis.
With his German background, understanding of French cultural, and fluency in several languages, including English, Justus became an invaluable member of Fryâs refugee network as a spy and scout. The spry blond who looked even younger than his age flourished in the underground, handling counterfeit documents, secret passwords, black market currency, surveying escape routes, and dealing with avaricious gangsters. But when Fry was eventually forced to leave France, Gussie, as he was affectionately known, could not get out. For the next four years, Justus relied on his wits and skills to escape captivity, survive several close calls with death, and continue his fight against the Nazis, working with the French Resistance and later, becoming attached with the United States Army. At the warâs end, Justus emigrated to America, and built a new life.
Justusâ story is a powerful saga of bravery, daring, adventure, and survival with the soul of a spy thriller. Reflecting on his past, Justus sees his life as a confluence of circumstances. As he writes, âI survived the war through a rare combination of good fortune, resourcefulness, optimism, and, most important, the kindness of many good people.â
EdituraHarperCollins
Dimensiuni234 x 156 x 7
Data Publicarii28/01/2020
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Numar pagini304
Aceasta este o carte in limba engleza. Descrierea cartii (tradusa din engleza cu Google Translate) este in limba romana din motive legale.
O memorie de neuitat din Al Doilea Razboi Mondial, amplasata in Franta ocupata de nazisti si plina de romantism si aventuri: un fost evreu din Europa de Est isi aminteste fuga sa din Holocaust si cei patru ani extraordinari din subteranul francez. Justus Rosenberg, acum in varsta de 98 de ani, a predat literatura la Colegiul Bard in ultimii cincizeci de ani. In 1937, pe masura ce nazistii au castigat controlul si antisemitismul s-a raspandit in orasul liber Danzig, un oras majoritar german din Marea Baltica, de saisprezece ani. -Vechiul Justus Rosenberg a fost trimis la Paris pentru a-si termina educatia in siguranta.