Though it reads like a suspense novel, this memoir is Lisa Fittko's extraordinary story of life as an "enemy alien" in France before and after the German invasion of 1940. Escaping a French prison, Fittko and her husband found their way to the Pyrenees and, while awaiting permission to enter Spain, helped hundreds of refugees, including Walter Benjamin, escape deportation, torture, and death at the hands of the Nazis.
| ISBN: | 9780810118034 |
| Publication date: | 30th March 2002 |
| Author: | Lisa Fittko |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 221 pages |
| Series: | Jewish Lives |
| Genres: |
Autobiography: historical, political and military Social groups: religious groups and communities |