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“michele sarde”

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  • Returning from Silence

    Jenny’s Story

    by Michèle Sarde ...
    Translated by Rupert Swyer ...
    A novel that tells the story of a Jewish family in World War II and reaches deep into Jewish history.Born in Brittany on the threshold of World War II, novelist Michèle Sarde had long been silent about her origins. After her mother, Jenny, finally shared their family history, Sarde decided to reconstruct Jenny’s journey, including her exile from Salonica, move to Paris in 1921, and assimilation in ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Dream in a Suitcase

    The Story of an Immigrant Life

    by Domnica Radulescu ...
    Dream in a Suitcase unravels a fast-paced journey of survival, resilience, and the transformative power of love. It is the first English-language memoir by a female Romanian American survivor of one of the most brutal communist dictatorships behind the Iron Curtain.The narrative offers a rich multicultural mosaic of a life divided not only between two cultures and languages-the heroine's native ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Jacques the Frenchman

    Memories of the Gulag

    by Jacques Rossi, Michele Sarde ...
    Translated by Kersti Colombant ...
    Jacques Rossi is one of Stalin’s most well-known victims. Author of The Gulag Handbook, a fascinating encyclopedia of the Soviet forced labor camps, Rossi spent twenty years in interrogation, prison, and Gulag detention. Born to a prominent Polish father and French mother, the young Jacques became attracted to communism as a blueprint for radical social reform. He spent years in the communist ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

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  • Village of Secrets

    Defying the Nazis in Vichy France

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    From the author of the runaway bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands, including many Jewish children, who were pursued by the Gestapo during World War II.Le Chambon-sur-Lignon is a small village of scattered houses high in the mountains of the Ardèche. Surrounded by pastures and thick forests of oak and pine, the plateau Vivarais ... Read more

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  • Les Parisiennes

    Resistance, Collaboration, and the Women of Paris Under Nazi Occupation

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    The New York Times–bestselling author explores WWII Paris history and tells the stories of how women survived—or didn't—during the Nazi occupation.Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower and danger lurked on every corner. While Parisian men were either fighting at the front or ... Read more

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  • The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück

    How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp

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  • But You Did Not Come Back

    A Memoir of the Holocaust

    by Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Judith Perrignon ...
    A breathtakingly beautiful memoir by a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and an astonishing addition to the library of literature on the HolocaustMarceline Loridan-Ivens was just fifteen when she was arrested along with her father in the Vichy-ruled part of France. Her mother and siblings managed to escape arrest. On their arrival at the camps, the two were separated--her father sent to Auschwitz, ... Read more

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  • Hotel Exile

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  • Never Be Afraid: A Belgian Jew in the French Resistance

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    "Rosemary Sullivan goes beyond the confines of Air-Bel to tell a fuller story of France during the tense years from 1933 to 1941. . . . A moving tale of great sacrifice in tumultuous times." — Publishers WeeklyParis 1940. Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupery, and scores of other cultural elite denounced as enemies of the conquering Third Reich, live in daily fear of ... Read more

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