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    After the Roundup: Escape and Survival in Hitler's France
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    After the Roundup: Escape and Survival in Hitler's France

    By Joseph Weismann

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    On the nights of July 16 and 17, 1942, French police rounded up eleven-year-old Joseph Weismann, his family, and 13,000 other Jews. After being held for five days in appalling conditions in the Vélodrome d'Hiver stadium, Joseph and his family were transported by cattle car to the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp and brutally separated: all the adults and most of the children were transported on to Auschwitz and certain death, but 1,000 children were left behind to wait for a later train. The French guards told the children left behind that they would soon be reunited with their parents, but Joseph and his new friend, Joe Kogan, chose to risk everything in a daring escape attempt. After eluding the guards and crawling under razor-sharp barbed wire, Joseph found freedom. But how would he survive the rest of the war in Nazi-occupied France and build a life for himself? His problems had just begun.

    Until he was 80, Joseph Weismann kept his story to himself, giving only the slightest hints of it to his wife and three children. Simone Veil, lawyer, politician, President of the European Parliament, and member of the Constitutional Council of France—herself a survivor of Auschwitz—urged him to tell his story. In the original French version of this book and in Roselyne Bosch's 2010 film La Rafle, Joseph shares his compelling and terrifying story of the Roundup of the Vél' d'Hiv and his escape. Now, for the first time in English, Joseph tells the rest of his dramatic story in After the Roundup.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndiana University Press
    Release dateApr 24, 2017
    ISBN9780253027047
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      nonfiction, historical-places-events, historical, France, family, friendship ***** When he is eighty, Joseph is made to see the good it will do for others to hear about the horror his life became in France in 1942. Born in France in 1931 to parents who lived in France after leaving a neighboring country twenty years earlier, he and his family were condemned by the Vichy government and Hitler because they were Jews not born in France. Think about it. What if you were herded into unsanitary and foodless arenas because of your religion and the fact that you or your parents were born in Wisconsin instead of, say, Texas. The conditions were horrible, parents separated from children who didn't know where parents were or that they, too, would be shipped off to the camps. Obviously Joseph escaped and suffered in other ways even after liberation, and much of that is related as well. This biography is excellent and most of it is written from the perspective of that young person. What a monumental task!Equally monumental was the task faced by translator Richard Kutner in transforming the original French, complete with idioms from sixty years ago!And don't forget how well J Clark Allison audio interpreted the writing without getting overly dramatic or doom and gloom. Fantastic!I won the audio in a giveaway.These things happened. Never Forget.