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A drive to survival : Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal : 1940 / Joseph Shadur.
LIBRA DS135.L33 S537 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shadur, Joseph.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shadur, Joseph.
- Shadur, Michael, 1897-1976.
- Shadur, Michael.
- Jews, Latvian--Germany--Biography.
- Jews, Latvian.
- Jews, Latvian--Belgium--Biography.
- Jews, Latvian--France--Biography.
- Jews, Latvian--Spain--Biography.
- Jewish refugees--Biography.
- Jewish refugees.
- Spain.
- France.
- Belgium.
- Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 144 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- South Deerfield, Mass. : K. Schoen Books, 1999.
- Summary:
- Memoirs of a Jew born in Riga in 1928, relating how he and his parents, sister, and grandmother escaped from the Nazis. Describes life in Berlin, where the family lived between 1928-35. The family fled to Belgium in 1936, and then to France just ahead of the Nazis. They spent May-December 1940 under German occupation in Bruges, near Bordeaux, posing as non-Jews. With French help and various documents, they travelled in an Oldsmobile (the "hero" of the story) to the French-Spanish border. A bribe enabled them to pass the German checkpoint; they went from Spain to Portugal, from where they were able to emigrate to the U.S. in February 1941. Shadur settled in Israel in 1950. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).
- Notes:
- Map on lining papers.
- ISBN:
- 9652229342
- 9789652229342
- OCLC:
- 41261667
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