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Justus Rosenberg - The Art of Resistance

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The Art of Resistance
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Justus Rosenberg
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A gripping memoir written by a 96-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor about his escape from Nazi-occupied Poland in the 1930's and his adventures with the French Resistance during World War IIIn 1937, as the Nazi Party tightened its grip on the city of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland), Justus Rosenberg’s parents made the wrenching decision to send their son to Paris, where he would have the hope of finishing high school and going on to university in safety. He was sixteen years old, and he would not see his family again for sixteen years more.Even after war broke out in 1939, life in France was peaceful for a time—but when the Nazis pushed toward Paris in the spring of 1940, Justus was forced to flee south to Toulouse. There, a chance meeting put Justus in contact with Varian Fry, the American journalist who ran a refugee network that aided several thousand Jews in escaping Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. With his German background, understanding of French cultural, and fluency in several languages, including English, Justus was ideally positioned to thrive in Fry’s network, coming to master an underworld of counterfeit documents, whispered passwords, black market currency, opportunistic gangsters, and clandestine mountain passes. Justus would spend the rest of the war working for Fry and later the French Resistance, helping to provide safe passage for many intellectuals and artists on the run from the Nazis, among them Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, Andre Breton, and Max Ernst. Along the way, he would have a number of close scrapes of his own: on one occasion, he was rounded up to be sent to a labor camp in Poland, and had to make a daring escape to save his life; on another, he narrowly survived after his jeep hits a landmine.An epic saga of survival, with the soul of a spy thriller, The Art of Resistance is also an uplifting story of personal triumph. (Several years after the war, Justus was finally able to track down his family, who he feared had died at the Nazis’ hands.) As Justus writes, “I survived the war through a rare combination of good fortune, resourcefulness, optimism, and, most important, the kindness of many good people.”

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WESTERN EUROPE 1940 CONTENTS COVER TITLE PAGE THE ART OF RESISTANCE COPYRIGHT - фото 5

WESTERN EUROPE, 1940 CONTENTS COVER TITLE PAGE THE ART OF RESISTANCE COPYRIGHT DEDICATION MAP OF EUROPE, 1936–1939 MAP OF WESTERN EUROPE, 1940 MAP OF OCCUPIED FRANCE PROLOGUE Part I THE FREE CITY OF DANZIG (1921–1937) A POGROM GERMAN-STYLE (SPRING 1937) PREPARING TO LEAVE DANZIG (SUMMER 1937) AT THE STATION (SEPTEMBER 1937) BERLIN (SEPTEMBER 2–12, 1937) Part II PARIS (SEPTEMBER 1937–SEPTEMBER 3, 1939) “THE PHONY WAR” (PARIS, SEPTEMBER 1939–JUNE 1940) THE DEBACLE (PARIS AND BAYONNE, JUNE 1940) TOULOUSE (JUNE AND JULY 1940) TO MARSEILLE, IN MARSEILLE (AUGUST–SEPTEMBER 1940) OVER THE PYRENEES (SEPTEMBER 11–13, 1940) WALTER BENJAMIN (LATE SEPTEMBER 1940) VILLA AIR-BEL (NOVEMBER 1940–FEBRUARY 1941) MAFIA (FEBRUARY–JUNE 1941) CHAGALL (SPRING 1941) MAX AND PEGGY DEPART (JULY 1941) THE EXPULSION OF FRY; MY MOUNTAIN CLIMBING ADVENTURE (AUGUST–DECEMBER 1941) GRENOBLE (DECEMBER 1941–AUGUST 26, 1942) Part III INTERNMENT (AUGUST 27–29, 1942) ESCAPE (SEPTEMBER 6, 1942) UNDERGROUND INTELLIGENCE AT MONTMEYRAN (AUTUMN 1942–MARCH 1943) MANNA FROM THE SKIES (NOVEMBER 1943–MAY 1944) LAST DAYS ON THE FARM (JUNE 1944) BECOMING A GUERRILLA (JUNE 1944) HAUTE CUISINE IN THE CAMP (JUNE–JULY 1944) THE AMBUSH (JULY 1944) THE 636TH TANK DESTROYER BATTALION (AUGUST–OCTOBER 1944) THE TELLER MINE INCIDENT (OCTOBER 11, 1944) HOMECOMING TO PARIS (DECEMBER 1944–FEBRUARY 15, 1945) GRANVILLE (FEBRUARY 15–MARCH 8, 1945) UNRRA (APRIL 1945–OCTOBER 1945) TO AMERICA (OCTOBER 1945–JULY 13, 1946) EPILOGUE: WHAT HAPPENED TO … PICTURE SECTION INDEX ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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OCCUPIED FRANCE CONTENTS COVER TITLE PAGE THE ART OF RESISTANCE COPYRIGHT - фото 7

OCCUPIED FRANCE CONTENTS COVER TITLE PAGE THE ART OF RESISTANCE COPYRIGHT DEDICATION MAP OF EUROPE, 1936–1939 MAP OF WESTERN EUROPE, 1940 MAP OF OCCUPIED FRANCE PROLOGUE Part I THE FREE CITY OF DANZIG (1921–1937) A POGROM GERMAN-STYLE (SPRING 1937) PREPARING TO LEAVE DANZIG (SUMMER 1937) AT THE STATION (SEPTEMBER 1937) BERLIN (SEPTEMBER 2–12, 1937) Part II PARIS (SEPTEMBER 1937–SEPTEMBER 3, 1939) “THE PHONY WAR” (PARIS, SEPTEMBER 1939–JUNE 1940) THE DEBACLE (PARIS AND BAYONNE, JUNE 1940) TOULOUSE (JUNE AND JULY 1940) TO MARSEILLE, IN MARSEILLE (AUGUST–SEPTEMBER 1940) OVER THE PYRENEES (SEPTEMBER 11–13, 1940) WALTER BENJAMIN (LATE SEPTEMBER 1940) VILLA AIR-BEL (NOVEMBER 1940–FEBRUARY 1941) MAFIA (FEBRUARY–JUNE 1941) CHAGALL (SPRING 1941) MAX AND PEGGY DEPART (JULY 1941) THE EXPULSION OF FRY; MY MOUNTAIN CLIMBING ADVENTURE (AUGUST–DECEMBER 1941) GRENOBLE (DECEMBER 1941–AUGUST 26, 1942) Part III INTERNMENT (AUGUST 27–29, 1942) ESCAPE (SEPTEMBER 6, 1942) UNDERGROUND INTELLIGENCE AT MONTMEYRAN (AUTUMN 1942–MARCH 1943) MANNA FROM THE SKIES (NOVEMBER 1943–MAY 1944) LAST DAYS ON THE FARM (JUNE 1944) BECOMING A GUERRILLA (JUNE 1944) HAUTE CUISINE IN THE CAMP (JUNE–JULY 1944) THE AMBUSH (JULY 1944) THE 636TH TANK DESTROYER BATTALION (AUGUST–OCTOBER 1944) THE TELLER MINE INCIDENT (OCTOBER 11, 1944) HOMECOMING TO PARIS (DECEMBER 1944–FEBRUARY 15, 1945) GRANVILLE (FEBRUARY 15–MARCH 8, 1945) UNRRA (APRIL 1945–OCTOBER 1945) TO AMERICA (OCTOBER 1945–JULY 13, 1946) EPILOGUE: WHAT HAPPENED TO … PICTURE SECTION INDEX ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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Parfois l’hazard fait bien les choses.

Sometimes chance itself occasions good fortune.

PROLOGUE PROLOGUE Part I THE FREE CITY OF DANZIG (1921–1937) A POGROM GERMAN-STYLE (SPRING 1937) PREPARING TO LEAVE DANZIG (SUMMER 1937) AT THE STATION (SEPTEMBER 1937) BERLIN (SEPTEMBER 2–12, 1937) Part II PARIS (SEPTEMBER 1937–SEPTEMBER 3, 1939) “THE PHONY WAR” (PARIS, SEPTEMBER 1939–JUNE 1940) THE DEBACLE (PARIS AND BAYONNE, JUNE 1940) TOULOUSE (JUNE AND JULY 1940) TO MARSEILLE, IN MARSEILLE (AUGUST–SEPTEMBER 1940) OVER THE PYRENEES (SEPTEMBER 11–13, 1940) WALTER BENJAMIN (LATE SEPTEMBER 1940) VILLA AIR-BEL (NOVEMBER 1940–FEBRUARY 1941) MAFIA (FEBRUARY–JUNE 1941) CHAGALL (SPRING 1941) MAX AND PEGGY DEPART (JULY 1941) THE EXPULSION OF FRY; MY MOUNTAIN CLIMBING ADVENTURE (AUGUST–DECEMBER 1941) GRENOBLE (DECEMBER 1941–AUGUST 26, 1942) Part III INTERNMENT (AUGUST 27–29, 1942) ESCAPE (SEPTEMBER 6, 1942) UNDERGROUND INTELLIGENCE AT MONTMEYRAN (AUTUMN 1942–MARCH 1943) MANNA FROM THE SKIES (NOVEMBER 1943–MAY 1944) LAST DAYS ON THE FARM (JUNE 1944) BECOMING A GUERRILLA (JUNE 1944) HAUTE CUISINE IN THE CAMP (JUNE–JULY 1944) THE AMBUSH (JULY 1944) THE 636TH TANK DESTROYER BATTALION (AUGUST–OCTOBER 1944) THE TELLER MINE INCIDENT (OCTOBER 11, 1944) HOMECOMING TO PARIS (DECEMBER 1944–FEBRUARY 15, 1945) GRANVILLE (FEBRUARY 15–MARCH 8, 1945) UNRRA (APRIL 1945–OCTOBER 1945) TO AMERICA (OCTOBER 1945–JULY 13, 1946) EPILOGUE: WHAT HAPPENED TO … PICTURE SECTION INDEX ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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THE STREET CLOTHES placed behind the laundry pail in an unobtrusive corner of the hospital lavatory were right where they were supposed to be. I had managed to fake my way out of the Nazi internment camp by feigning agonizing stomach pains, but the last thing I expected was to have an appendectomy actually performed on my gut. The gash in my abdomen was far from healed, but I’d walked to the bathroom at the appointed moment and now, if I could slip into the clothes the Underground operative (disguised as a priest) had left for me, and if I could sashay out of the hospital without raising suspicions, the only thing I had to worry about was riding a bicycle to the halfway house in Lyon, without my intestines spilling onto the boulevard! I made it down the broad hospital stairway and out the heavy lobby doors, and the bicycle was parked by a bench just as planned. Gingerly I mounted the saddle and coasted down the long driveway to the main road, where, standing all the while with one hand on my stomach, I would hopefully pedal my way to freedom. Automobiles whizzed by me, the late summer breeze tousled my hair, but suddenly the whining crescendo of what I thought must be a police siren loomed up behind me. Had I been betrayed? Was I after all about to be sent back to the camp and from there to Auschwitz?

THE FREE CITY OF DANZIG THE FREE CITY OF DANZIG 19211937 A POGROM - фото 11

THE FREE CITY OF DANZIG THE FREE CITY OF DANZIG (1921–1937) A POGROM GERMAN-STYLE (SPRING 1937) PREPARING TO LEAVE DANZIG (SUMMER 1937) AT THE STATION (SEPTEMBER 1937) BERLIN (SEPTEMBER 2–12, 1937) Part II PARIS (SEPTEMBER 1937–SEPTEMBER 3, 1939) “THE PHONY WAR” (PARIS, SEPTEMBER 1939–JUNE 1940) THE DEBACLE (PARIS AND BAYONNE, JUNE 1940) TOULOUSE (JUNE AND JULY 1940) TO MARSEILLE, IN MARSEILLE (AUGUST–SEPTEMBER 1940) OVER THE PYRENEES (SEPTEMBER 11–13, 1940) WALTER BENJAMIN (LATE SEPTEMBER 1940) VILLA AIR-BEL (NOVEMBER 1940–FEBRUARY 1941) MAFIA (FEBRUARY–JUNE 1941) CHAGALL (SPRING 1941) MAX AND PEGGY DEPART (JULY 1941) THE EXPULSION OF FRY; MY MOUNTAIN CLIMBING ADVENTURE (AUGUST–DECEMBER 1941) GRENOBLE (DECEMBER 1941–AUGUST 26, 1942) Part III INTERNMENT (AUGUST 27–29, 1942) ESCAPE (SEPTEMBER 6, 1942) UNDERGROUND INTELLIGENCE AT MONTMEYRAN (AUTUMN 1942–MARCH 1943) MANNA FROM THE SKIES (NOVEMBER 1943–MAY 1944) LAST DAYS ON THE FARM (JUNE 1944) BECOMING A GUERRILLA (JUNE 1944) HAUTE CUISINE IN THE CAMP (JUNE–JULY 1944) THE AMBUSH (JULY 1944) THE 636TH TANK DESTROYER BATTALION (AUGUST–OCTOBER 1944) THE TELLER MINE INCIDENT (OCTOBER 11, 1944) HOMECOMING TO PARIS (DECEMBER 1944–FEBRUARY 15, 1945) GRANVILLE (FEBRUARY 15–MARCH 8, 1945) UNRRA (APRIL 1945–OCTOBER 1945) TO AMERICA (OCTOBER 1945–JULY 13, 1946) EPILOGUE: WHAT HAPPENED TO … PICTURE SECTION INDEX ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ABOUT THE PUBLISHER