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

by Joseph Weismann

Book Overview

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 V lodrome 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253026911
• ISBN13: 9780253026910
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher