Art of Resistance - My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir (Rosenberg Justus)(Paperback)

"Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew’s flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the French underground.” —USA TodayAn American Library in Paris Book Award "Coups de Coeur" SelectionThe Art of Resistanceis unlike any World War II memoir before it. Its author, Justus Rosenberg, hasspent the past seventy years teaching the classics of literature to Americancollege students. Hidden within him, however, was a remarkable true story ofwartime courage and romance worthy of a great novel. Here is ProfessorRosenberg’s elegant and gripping chronicle of his youth in Nazi-occupiedEurope, when he risked everything to stand against evil.In 1937, after witnessing aviolent Nazi mob in his hometown of Danzig, a majority German city on theBaltic Sea, sixteen-year-old Justus Rosenberg was sent by his Jewish parents toParis to finish his education in safety. Three years later, the Nazis cameagain, as France fell to the Germans. Alone and in danger, Justus fled Paris,heading south. A chance meeting led him to Varian Fry, an American journalistin Marseille who led a clandestine network helping thousands of men andwomen—including many legendary artists and intellectuals, among them HannahArendt, Marc Chagall, Andre Breton, and Max Ernst—escape the Nazis. With his intimateunderstanding of French and German culture, and fluency in several languages,including English, Justus became an invaluable member of Fry’s operation as aspy and scout.Afterthe Vi
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