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After the Roundup: Escape and Survival in Hitler´s France
Joseph Weismann
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Description for After the Roundup: Escape and Survival in Hitler´s France
Paperback. Translator(s): Kutner, Richard. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; BM; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
On the nights of July 16 and 17, 1942, French police rounded up eleven-year-old Joseph Weismann, his family, and 13,000 other Jews. After being held for five days in appalling conditions in the Velodrome d'Hiver stadium, Joseph and his family were transported by cattle car to the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp and brutally separated: all the adults and most of the children were transported on to Auschwitz and certain death, but 1,000 children were left behind to wait for a later train. The French guards told the children left behind that they would soon be reunited with their parents, but Joseph ... Read more
On the nights of July 16 and 17, 1942, French police rounded up eleven-year-old Joseph Weismann, his family, and 13,000 other Jews. After being held for five days in appalling conditions in the Velodrome d'Hiver stadium, Joseph and his family were transported by cattle car to the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp and brutally separated: all the adults and most of the children were transported on to Auschwitz and certain death, but 1,000 children were left behind to wait for a later train. The French guards told the children left behind that they would soon be reunited with their parents, but Joseph ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253026910
SKU
V9780253026910
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About Joseph Weismann
Joseph Weismann is a survivor of the 1942 Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in Paris. His story inspired the French film, La Rafle. Now 85 years old, he lives in Le Mans. Richard Kutner is an independent literary translator. His translations include Fear of Paradise by Vincent Engel and Cast Away on the Letter A by Fred, for which ... Read more
Reviews for After the Roundup: Escape and Survival in Hitler´s France
As few others manage, Joseph Weismann's memoir captures the tension between the great communal torment and the unique personal repercussions of those who endured the Holocaust. This is a boy's story, except that the boy is in hell, and faces it, and survives it. Weismann's narrative is an achievement to be grateful for. -Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's List ... Read more