In the Shadows of Paris: The Nazi Concentration Camp That Dimmed the City of Light by Sinclair, Anne

"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.

Author: Anne Sinclair
Publisher: Kales Press
Published: 11/16/2021
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.17h x 5.20w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9781733395861