Honorary Aryans
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Honorary Aryans
9.99 €
"A whirlwind of hatred swept through the city, turning every neighbor into a possible enemy." This is how Lucy, Maria-Louise and Susanne Stern see Paris occupied by Hitler's troops. The cousins were born into a wealthy Jewish family and grew up in the bourgeois atmosphere of early 20th century Paris. Marrying aristocrats and converting to Catholicism, they all became part of French high society and tried to forget their origins.
But with the arrival of the Nazis in June 1940, their carefully constructed world collapsed. From now on, the Marquise, Baroness and Countess are no longer considered not only French women, but even just people: their passports blush with the stamp "Jewess", yesterday's friends hastily avert their eyes when they meet, their lives are in real danger. What to do with an identity they did not choose? Should they trust the judgment of a close family friend of Marshal Pétain? Is there any hope of obtaining the status of "honorary arieks," exempt from discrimination and arrest? Damien Roger's family saga, based on true events, offers us a glimpse of occupied France through the eyes of women who suddenly found themselves strangers to everyone else.
But with the arrival of the Nazis in June 1940, their carefully constructed world collapsed. From now on, the Marquise, Baroness and Countess are no longer considered not only French women, but even just people: their passports blush with the stamp "Jewess", yesterday's friends hastily avert their eyes when they meet, their lives are in real danger. What to do with an identity they did not choose? Should they trust the judgment of a close family friend of Marshal Pétain? Is there any hope of obtaining the status of "honorary arieks," exempt from discrimination and arrest? Damien Roger's family saga, based on true events, offers us a glimpse of occupied France through the eyes of women who suddenly found themselves strangers to everyone else.
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