Jacques Maurice Lévi

Broschiertes Buch

From Vichy to Jerusalem: A Memoir of Hiding and Coming of Age

Beschreibung

Jacques Lévi intended the manuscript of this book simply to be a gift of memories to his 3 sons and their families. Thankfully, he took the comments of some early readers to heart, that his life story might "resonate with others"..., with a wider audience. This story begins with Germany poised to annihilate its own and all European Jewry. Germany invades Poland in 1939, France and the Low Countries by May, 1940. World War II is underway, and the Holocaust is coming. The Vichy regime forms in southern France in July, immediately passing anti-Semitic laws that send the family into hiding. Jacques Lévi weaves his parents written and oral recollections and his child's-eye memories into an intimate, honest, compelling memoir of the war years, his coming of age, and passage to adulthood. His is as much a spiritual journey as a passage from fear and terror to salvation and to a life well lived.

Autor

This book is in fact, my autobiography, so permit me to excerpt a few facts from the first chapter. "When I entered this incomprehensible world, France was living its last days of peace and freedom... Europe was on the eve of a formidable storm, the strength of which no one could yet foresee..., neither its duration nor consequences. The upheavals that occurred in Europe since Hitler had come to power six years earlier, especially in Austria and Czechoslovakia, must have worried my parents... The violence of the anti-Semitic storm that had descended on the Jewish communities of these three countries at the same time as the savagery with which Austria and then Czechoslovakia were annexed to Germany should have convinced them to leave Europe at the beginning of 1939. Easy to say. Mum was already pregnant with me, responsible for her parents and for her own grandmother (in her eighties)... We were well and truly trapped." The first part of my story is thus, one of survival in hiding from the Vichy regime intent in finding and transferring Jews from their own camps to Hitler's. The second part is of the recovery of life in postwar France, of my childhood and of my coming of age in a France troubled by her failure to acknowledge her past. The third part of my story is a tale of falling in love, starting a family of my own, and of emigrating to Israel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Neil Investments Inc
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9781667883298
• ISBN-10: 1667883291
• Artikelnr.: 67217104