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 II
In 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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