Isaac Levendel

3297. Not the Germans Alone: A Son's Search for the Truth of Vichy, by Isaac Levendahl (read March 7, 2000) This is an account of a Jewish boy in Vichy France whose mother is caught and shipped off on June 6, 1944, to Auschwitz. It recreates in amazing detail the author's youth during the war, when he was 8 or less. The book is written in great anguish, but is so personalized that it cannot be said to tell more than the situation in France in the locale where he was . It raises anew: what would one have done if one had had to be a hero to do the right thing?… (mer)