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Françoise Frenkel

Born

in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland

July 14, 1889

Died

January 18, 1975

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Françoise Frenkel (Frymeta, Idesa Raichenstein-Frenkel) est une libraire et écrivain polonaise.

Elle étudie la littérature à Paris, à la Sorbonne. Puis elle part pour Berlin où elle fonde en 1921 la première librairie française, "La Maison du Livre". Elle la tient avec son mari, Simon Rachenstein, d'origine russe.

Simon Rachenstein s'exile à Paris en 1933, tandis qu'elle reste jusqu'en août 1939 à Berlin, qu'elle quitte avec les derniers résidents français, sur les conseils du consul de France. Elle rejoint Paris quelques jours seulement avant le début de la seconde guerre mondiale.

Lors de l'invasion allemande en 1940, grâce à des amis, elle obtient des laisser-passer pour Avignon, puis Vichy, puis Nice. En juin 1943, elle parvient à gagner ...more

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	A Bookshop in Berlin by Françoise Frenkel, Patrick Modiano (Preface), Stephanie Smee (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 6,917 ratings — published 1945 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The bitterness of this truth weighs on me still, and will to the end of my days.”
― Françoise Frenkel, A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis

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“They implemented the Vichy regulations strictly and inexorably. These subservient men harbored a violent anger accumulated in the wake of the defeat, and it was as if they wanted to take it out on those weaker, less fortunate than themselves. There was nothing heroic about these agents of authority, not their job nor their approach.”
― Françoise Frenkel, A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis

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