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The spiral shell, a French village reveals its secrets of Jewish resistance in World War II : a memoir, Sandell Morse

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The spiral shell, a French village reveals its secrets of Jewish resistance in World War II : a memoir, Sandell Morse

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eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The spiral shell

Oclc number

1120694254

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Sandell Morse

Sub title

a French village reveals its secrets of Jewish resistance in World War II : a memoir

Summary

"April 2020 will mark the 80th Anniversary of the fall of France to Nazi Germany, and the establishment of the provisional government of the Vichy state, a puppet of the Axis regime, to carry out the arrest and deportation of all Jewish civilians. In the course of her writing residency over a three-year period in the village of Auvillar, the author learns of acts of bravery and rebellion on the part of several of the Jewish families and individuals who risked their lives to save innocent refugees and children orphaned by the Holocaust, and gradually gains their trust enough for them to share the details of their harrowing experiences of rebellion and resistance. The author in turn discovers truths about her own life and Jewish heritage in America, which she now sees in the light of the bravery and selflessness of those who elected to act and not stand by idly in the face of oppression and genocide"--Amazon

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