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The Escape Line: How the Ordinary Heroes of Dutch-Paris Resisted the Nazi Occupation of Western Europe
By Koreman, Megan
- ISBN
- 9780190662271
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ.
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Reviewed on March 23, 2018 | Nonfiction
Between 1942 and 1945, 300 French and Dutch residents maintained a clandestine "Dutch-Paris" network to hide, supply, and move people—Jews, downed airmen, resisters—across occupied and Vichy France to Switzerland and Spain. In all, 82 network members were eventually arrested, while 16 were tortured and 49 were deported to camps; 27 died, including the young sister of the network's organizer, Jean Weidner. But as a result of their efforts, 1,50...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
