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Francoise Frenkel

Patrick Modiano (preface by)‎

Stephanie Smee (translated by)‎

Maria Frederic (Compiler)‎

Call number940.5318092/0867

Object number10055

Place of publicationSydney, New South Wales, Australia

PublisherVintage Books

Year of publication

2017

Physical description286p.

MaterialBook

ISBN9780143784111

NotesFrenkel's book, written with piercing clarity and sensibility in the immediate aftermath of her escape to Switzerland. was originally published in 1945 in Geneva.. But only recently was a copy of this forgotten work discovered and a decision made at French publisher Gallimard to republish it, seventy years later. Very little is known of Franpoise Frenkel's subsequent life, except that she returned to live in Nice where she had spent much of her time during the war, and where she died in 1975.

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Franpoise Frenkel was a Jewish woman born in Poland who in 1921 set up the first French-language bookshop in Berlin. Her business was a success - attracting diplomats and celebrities, authors and artists. But life in Berlin for a Jewish woman and a foreigner soon became untenable. Frenkel was forced to flee to Paris and compelled to keep moving as she attempted to survive in a world disintegrating around her. Her observations of and interactions with the French people, both those who would give her up to the Nazi authorities and those who risked their own lives and families by offering her refuge, show how humanity strives to assert itself even in the darkest times. Frenkel's book, written with piercing clarity and sensibility in the immediate aftermath of her escape to Switzerland.

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