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Hiding in Plain Sight - Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France (Hardcover)
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Hiding in Plain Sight - Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France (Hardcover)
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France is an
unusual memoir about the childhood and young adulthood of Sarah Lew
Miller. Born in a large Orthodox Jewish family in Dereczyn, Poland,
Sarah's family moved to Paris in 1937 to escape poverty. The German
Occupation of France just three years later threatened her family's
existence with repressive anti-Jewish laws and massive deportations
of Jews to death camps. With the help of Christian neighbours, they
evaded arrest for several years in Paris by living undercover
beginning in July, 1942. After Sarah's mother was arrested and then
rescued, Sarah's parents went into deep hiding, while their eight
children found refuge in rural villages scattered around France.
Through the help of a French Resistance organisation, the Sixieme,
Sarah escaped to Switzerland in May, 1944 and her entire family was
reunited in Paris after the Liberation in 1945. This personal and
historical account of an era conveys the day-to-day life of a
teenage girl living in Nazi-occupied France with the ever-present
threat of death. Despite her loneliness, hardships and the
derailment of her childhood dreams, she kept her strong family ties
and maintained her faith in humanity. This memoir demonstrates the
qualities of resilience and courage that enabled individuals and
families such as Sarah's to survive. By reliving one family's way
of coping with a social and political crisis, we learn about
ourselves and our own society.
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