Gestapo

Colette 's third husband, Maurice Goudeket , who was Jewish, was arrested in Paris by the Gestapo

During her first marriage, HA criticised the German women's movement for interesting itself in social, or women's issues without considering the broader political causes and consequences which made them of concern to men as well...

After the end of World War II, Brittain learned that both she and her husband were in the Gestapo 's Black-book; this was a list of 2,820 British subjects and European exiles who would...

DB and her daughter Janie were active anti-Fascists during World War II, though their specific activities and affiliations are unclear. In November 1944 Vanessa Bell wrote to Molly MacCarthy about some of the Bussys' work...

GS spent most of World War II in the French villages of Bilignin and Culoz, despite warnings from the American consul in Lyons that she should leave because she was Jewish (as was Alice...

Englishman Hilary Wainwright is spending Christmas of 1943 with his mother in England. The year before, in 1942, he had been in Paris (then under the Vichy puppet regime) with his pregnant wife, Lisa...

VB 's literary output during and immediately after World War II was almost entirely taken up with statements of her pacifist convictions both her in non-fictional writing and lecturing and her last two novels. The...

In France Pierre takes him to meet a curé and the curé's housekeeper, Madame Quilleboeuf, who during the war had smuggled to safety the children of people picked up by the Gestapo , hiding each...