Escape Through the Pyrenees
Book Details
Author(s)Lisa Fittko
PublisherNorthwestern Univ Pr
ISBN / ASIN0810109891
ISBN-139780810109896
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
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.


