Terre de détresse : Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen

Memoirs of a French Jew (b. 1915), a doctor, who was arrested by the militia in Nice in April 1944. She and her fiancé, Moussa Abadi, were accused of organizing the Marcel Network that, with the aid of the mayor and the Protestant churches, rescued 500 Jewish children. Odette was interned in Drancy and deported to Bergen-Belsen with Transport 1.200. Moussa was active in the underground until the end of the war. Odette was in charge of the hospital block in Birkenau until her transfer to Bergen-Belsen in November 1944. In April 1945 the British liberated Bergen-Belsen and she returned to Paris in June. 181 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.