TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frenkel,Francoise
AU  - Modiano,Patrick
AU  - Maria,Frederic
AU  - Smee,Stephanie
TI  - No place to lay one's head
SN  - 9780143784111 :
U1  - 940.5318092 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - North Sydney, NSW
PB  - Penguin Random House Australia
KW  - Frenkel, Françoise.
KW  - Jewish women
KW  - Germany
KW  - Berlin
KW  - Biography
KW  - France
KW  - Jewish refugees
KW  - 20th century
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Personal narratives, Jewish
KW  - Jews
N1  - First published in France as Rien où poser sa tête by L'Arbalète Gallimard in 2015
N2  - "Francoise Frenkel was a Jewish woman born in Poland and enamoured of all things literary and French. In 1921 she set up the first French-language bookshop in Berlin, recognising the craving for French culture in that city in the wake of the First World War. Her business was a success - attracting diplomats and celebrities, authors and artists. But life in Berlin for a Jewish woman and a foreigner soon became untenable.
Frenkel was forced to flee to Paris and compelled to keep moving as she attempted to survive in a world disintegrating around her. Her observations of and interactions with the French people, both those who would give her up to the Nazi authorities and those who risked their own lives and families by offering her refuge, show how humanity strives to assert itself even in the darkest times.
Frenkel's book, written with piercing clarity and sensibility in the immediate aftermath of her escape to Switzerland, was originally published in 1945 in Geneva. But only recently was a copy of this forgotten work discovered and a decision made at French publisher Gallimard to republish it, seventy years later." -- Back cover
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