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Besnainou, Jacques

 
9780991166305: The Promise: A tale of two families betrayed by France and saved by the French.
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ISBN 10 : 0991166302 ISBN 13 : 9780991166305
Editeur : JIB Consulting LLC, 2013

Synopsis

This book is the chronicle of a family’s survival: my mother and my mother-in-law struggles and miracle survival during WWII in France. The stories told in this book stem from a promise I made to my mother, Renée Holzer-Englander-Besnainou, in 1977 when I was only 13 and she was losing her battle against breast cancer at the young age of 41. At a tender age, from four to eight years old, she lived through a terrifying and inexplicable ordeal provoked by the willful blindness of a government gone mad. She was rescued thanks to the miraculous intervention of simple and courageous people who listened to their conscience and challenged the established order, often at the cost of their own lives. In 1940, about 330,000 Jews lived in France. Three-fourths of them survived thanks to the exemplary altruism of the French people. This book pays homage to them. Every story and location, as well as most of the dates and names, are completely true albeit slightly romanticized in order to add texture and readability to this novelized history.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jacques Besnainou is an engineer by trade educated in Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines in Paris, France. Jacques moved to the U.S. from France in 1993 where he successfully developed an environmental consulting firm. After selling it in 2000, he spent more than a decade at the large nuclear services company AREVA where he held several high level management positions. Jacques lives in Washington D.C. with his wife Isabelle and his three children David, Sarah & Judith.

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Éditeur
JIB Consulting LLC
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0991166302
ISBN 13 
9780991166305
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
96
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