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Never Be Afraid: A Belgian Jew in the French Resistance

NEVER BE AFRAID:
A Belgian Jew in the French Resistance
3rd edition

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR

INTRODUCTION

PART I: COMING INTO BELGIUM—THE PRE-WAR YEARS
Chapter 1	My Father Fights in the Kishinev Pogrom, Then Brings the Family to Belgium
Chapter 2	Meatballs, Losing My Bowels, and a Bucket of Mussels
Chapter 3	“Your Son Bernard Is Fighting with Everybody"
Chapter 4	“A Jew Must Have a Trade,” and My Mother Dies
Chapter 5	I Marry Chana Laja and Join the Union, the Imperialists Lift Their Heads

PART II: FLIGHT FROM BELGIUM
Chapter 6	Hitler Invades Belgium, I’m Separated from My Family
Chapter 7	We Become Christians in Vichy, I’m Summoned to Saint-Liguaire
Chapter 8	I Risk My Neck to Make Ladies’ Eight-Button Gloves in Saint-Liguaire
Chapter 9	“Seig Heil, I’m a Belgian and I’m Proud of You”
Chapter 10	Cadavers on Phone Wires, Schleppers on the Train, and I Arrive in Riom
Chapter 11	Family Reunion, Colored Water, and Eggs on the Cross

PART III: THE MOVE TO VOLVIC AND THE BEGINNING OF LIFE IN THE RESISTANCE
Chapter 12	Life Begins in Volvic
Chapter 13	The Eyes of the Bull
Chapter 14	“Do You Know How to Steal?”
Chapter 15	“I Am Jewish”
Chapter 16	Emory Powder and 1,001 Nights
Chapter 17	Vials of Diseases

PART IV: FROM MAQUIS TO AMERICA
Chapter 18	The Maquis
Chapter 19	Like Blood out of the Aorta of a Pig
Chapter 20	Return to Belgium
Chapter 21	Never Be Afraid

EPILOGUE (1996)

APPENDIX, by Philip Rosen

FINAL WORD TO READERS

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