THE FORGOTTEN HOSTAGES: The untold story of imprisoned American and British civilians in Nazi-Occupied
This story takes place between 1905 and 1982. Linda Bastide did not want to do the work of a historian here. She built his
story in a particular form: a double novel.
«Once upon a time in our life», that Rifka Sachs, his motherin-law Polish Jew, English, stateless, French, finally, him told:
his eternal escape with Jacob Knobel, his young husband, from their native Poland and passing through Palestine; to Paris
where they are rounded up and locked up for five years in separate camps, serving as bargaining chips and guarantee of
peace with America.
In total immersion, Linda Bastide offers us a second story, the one, incredible, that she is in the process of to describe ;
and which it indicates by terms borrowed from the movie theater.
She sprinkles her text with authentic, extremely rare and priceless family documents, which she offered to the Shoah
Museum, which had been running after it for 75 years.
This story finally revealed is like a journey of the soul, to absolutely read.
AUTHOR
Since her first Jean Cocteau poetry prize (1962), Linda Bastide, laureate of the French Academy, has never stopped writing. In this fourth book, she reconnects the threads of a story lost in the memory of mankind.