A Bookshop in Berlin: One Woman's Flight from the Nazis by Françoise Frenkel

A Bookshop in Berlin: One Woman's Flight from the Nazis

Pushkin Press Classics

Françoise Frenkel with Stephanie Smee (Translator)

304 pages first pub 1945 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir reflective sad slow-paced
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Initially published as No Place to Lay One's Head - the unforgettable story of one woman's struggle to survive persecution in wartime France In 1921, Francoise Frenkel-a Jewish woman from Poland-opens Berlin's very first French bookshop. It is a d...

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