A fragile identity : survival in Nazi-occupied Belgium
The second volume of the author's memoirs [the first volume was published as "Smoke Signals" (1997)]. Describes the first Nazi measures against the Belgian Jews. In October 1942 she and her sister Marianna, who were provided with "Aryan" documents by Belgian friends, left Brussels and moved to the Ardennes, where Alexandra settled in a village near Namur, passing as a Christian. In 1944 the vicinity was liberated by the Americans. Their mother was hidden in a convent in Flanders and survived; their father was arrested in 1941 as an activist of the AJJDC, went through Breendonk and various labor camps, and survived. Includes index. xii, 321 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Brodsky, Alexandra Fanny.
- NIOD Bibliotheek
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- ocm39375047
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Belgian.
- Brodsky, Alexandra Fanny.
- Belgium--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
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