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EAN : 9782258195011
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 480
Size : 140 x 225 mm
A Kibbutz in Corrèze

Collection : Terres de France
Release date : 21/09/2021
It is a unique community experiment in France devised with the backing of the Baron de Rothschild: young Germans, Jews, and Communist intellectuals who have fled before Hitler’s arrival in power are living in a self-sufficient kibbutz in the heart of a small village in the central department of Corrèze.
In the village of Nazareth, which still bears the scars of the First World War, Yohann, Haïm, Sarah and the other young German exiles receive a rather cool welcome. After their apprenticeship on the farm, they are due to head to Palestine. Their living conditions are tough but thanks to... In the village of Nazareth, which still bears the scars of the First World War, Yohann, Haïm, Sarah and the other young German exiles receive a rather cool welcome. After their apprenticeship on the farm, they are due to head to Palestine. Their living conditions are tough but thanks to their enthusiasm and polite manners, they gradually win over the locals. Except for the regional sub-prefect Albert Malaterre, who is a fascist at heart and has vowed to shut down the kibbutz, not least because his son Frédéric has started frequenting the pretty Sarah.
By early 1935, most of them have already left for Palestine but Yohann has remained in France and Frédéric has married Sarah. After the French defeat in 1940, they join the Resistance, respectively the Gaullistes of Edmond Michelet and the Communists of Colonel Guingouin. Meanwhile in Sarlat, Sarah is knitting and selling dolls to support the Resistance fighters and is expecting a baby. Malaterre, who has become a commander in the Vichy regime, has her arrested and deported, and Frédéric and Yohann now have a sole purpose in life: to make him pay for his crime.
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EAN : 9782258195011
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 480
Size : 140 x 225 mm
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