Escape Through the Pyrenees (Jewish Lives) - Softcover

Fittko, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810118033 ISBN 13: 9780810118034

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Though it reads like a suspense novel, this memoir is Lisa Fittko's extraordinary story of life as an "enemy alien" in France before and after the German invasion of 1940. Escaping a French prison, Fittko and her husband found their way to the Pyrenees and, while awaiting permission to enter Spain, helped hundreds of refugees, including Walter Benjamin, escape deportation, torture, and death at the hands of the Nazis.

About this title

About the Author

Lisa Fittko fled to France in 1941, settled in Cuba for a time, and immigrated to the United States in 1948. She is active in the peace movement.

David Koblick an American, is retired from the electrical construction Industry and resides with his wife, Berta, in Steyr, Austria. His second vocation is translating in the German and English languages.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810118033
• ISBN 13: 9780810118034
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232