Le courage dans la souffrance [book + electronic resource]

Memoirs of Probst-Weil (1923-2006), who was born in Haguenau to a wealthy Alsatian merchant family. They were evacuated in 1940 and settled in Roanne, where Probts-Weil and her brother were offered work and the whole family protection by a member of the French resistance. In July 1944, however, the Weils were denounced by Caroline (Linette), a cousin who was married to state prosecutor René Weil but became the mistress of collaborator Felix Michel. Probst-Weil and her brother were first tortured in the prison in Saint-Etienne and then sent to Drancy together with their parents. They were liberated in August 1944. After a year in Roanne, the family returned to newly liberated Haguenau. Pp. 62-120 present facsimiles of newspaper articles pertaining to the trial of Caroline Weil and Felix Michel in Lyon in 1947. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)