Agnes Humbert
Published: 2008-09-02
Total Pages: 402
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"As the grip of the German occupation tightened on Paris in the summer of 1940, Agnes Humbert, a respected art historian, took a leap of blind faith and reckless courage. With the help of a few colleagues, she formed the highly effective Musee de l'Homme network, a keystone group within the French Resistance, and very likely the first of its kind. Indeed, the French Resistance was named after the group's newsletter, Resistance." "In 1941 many of its members, including its charismatic leader, Boris Vilde, and Agnes herself, were betrayed to the Gestapo and imprisoned. Seven of the men were condemned to death and executed by firing squad. The women were deported to Germany as slave workers. These are the events described with electrifying immediacy by Agnes Humbert in her secret journal, first published in France in 1946 and never before translated into English. Resistance is a testament to one woman's indomitable spirit, an eloquent tribute to the sacrifice and courage of her comrades who did not survive. A moving elegy to human dignity, compassion, idealism, and endurance, it exemplifies the words inscribed on France's Memorial de la Deportation: "Forgive, but never forget.""--BOOK JACKET.