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A review by jess_mango
A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis by Françoise Frenkel
4.0
A Bookshop in Berlin was originally published in the late 1940s and pretty much disappeared until it was rediscovered in the past decade and was recently republished. This book by author Francoise Frenkel tells of her experiences as a Jewish woman in Germany and France during World War II.
Francoise Frenkel was a Polish Jew who was raised in Poland and went on to study in Germany & France. It was in France that she developed a love for French Literature. In 1921, she decided to open a French bookshop in Germany. With the rise of the Nazis, there was serious pressure on Jewish business owners but she was able to remain open until 1939. At that time she escaped to Paris and the contents of her bookshop were seized by the Nazis. Over the next several years she moved from place to place in France, attempting to avoid being capture. The book highlights the cruelty of war and the assistance she was able to receive from friends and strangers.
This was a powerful, first hand account of a woman's experience during World War II. Frenkel wrote this memoir after she had escaped to Switzerland. Her accounts of her struggles are gripping and emotional. We feel her anxiety over not knowing what lay ahead and if she will remain safe or not.
I received a digital edition of this book from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
Francoise Frenkel was a Polish Jew who was raised in Poland and went on to study in Germany & France. It was in France that she developed a love for French Literature. In 1921, she decided to open a French bookshop in Germany. With the rise of the Nazis, there was serious pressure on Jewish business owners but she was able to remain open until 1939. At that time she escaped to Paris and the contents of her bookshop were seized by the Nazis. Over the next several years she moved from place to place in France, attempting to avoid being capture. The book highlights the cruelty of war and the assistance she was able to receive from friends and strangers.
This was a powerful, first hand account of a woman's experience during World War II. Frenkel wrote this memoir after she had escaped to Switzerland. Her accounts of her struggles are gripping and emotional. We feel her anxiety over not knowing what lay ahead and if she will remain safe or not.
I received a digital edition of this book from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.