Escape Through the Pyrenees

by Lisa Fittko

Book Overview

Though it reads like a suspense novel, this memoir is Lisa Fittko's extraordinary story of life as an "enemy alien" in France before and after the German invasion of 1940. Escaping a French prison, Fittko and her husband found their way to the Pyrenees and, while awaiting permission to enter Spain, helped hundreds of refugees, including Walter Benjamin, escape deportation, torture, and death at the hands of the Nazis.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810118033
• ISBN13: 9780810118034
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.9"