A bookshop in Berlin: the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis
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In 1921, Françoise Frenkel--a Jewish woman from Poland--fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin's first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by frequent police visits and book confiscations. Françoise's dream finally shatters on Kristallnacht in November 1938, as hundreds of Jewish shops and businesses are destroyed. La Maison du Livre is miraculously spared, but fear of persecution eventually forces Françoise on a desperate, lonely flight to Paris. When the city is bombed, she seeks refuge across southern France, witnessing countless horrors: children torn from their parents, mothers throwing themselves under buses. Secreted away from one safe house to the next, Françoise survives at the heroic hands of strangers risking their lives to protect her.
Notes
Frenkel, F., Modiano, P., Maria, F., & Smee, S. (2019). A bookshop in Berlin: the rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis. First Atria Books hardcover edition December 2019. New York, NY, Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Françoise Frenkel et al.. 2019. A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape From the Nazis. New York, NY, Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Françoise Frenkel et al., A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape From the Nazis. New York, NY, Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Frenkel, Françoise, et al. A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape From the Nazis. First Atria Books hardcover edition December 2019. New York, NY, Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2019.
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