Never Be Afraid: A Jew in the Maquis

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Mednicki was a Belgian Jew who fled to southern France with his wife and two children when the Nazis invaded Belgium in 1940. In France, they assumed a Christian identity, and Mednicki joined a French Resistance group, the Maquis, that fought the German occupation forces, blowing up factories, dams, and trains. The family survived and came to the U.S. in 1947. This book was developed from a series of interviews Wachsberger held with Mednicki in 1988; it includes an appendix written by Philip Rosen, a Holocaust scholar, which places Mednicki's story in its proper historical perspective by telling first of the Holocaust in France, then of the resistance movement in all of France, and finally of the resistance movement in southern France. George Cohen


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