A 73-year-old French woman in quarantine in the French Alps reflects on her Jewish father, who survived WWII by hiding in a nearby village — though at a different time and for entirely different reasons.
Jacques Enoch with his bike in the Alps in 1941. Danièle Enoch-Maillard's father, who was Jewish, survived World War II in an Alpine village with the help of a deputy mayor and a postal worker who sent smoke signals every time the Nazis headed up the mountain road to the hamlet.Jacques Enoch with his bike in the Alps in 1941.
France's unprecedented nationwide lockdown has many older French people reflecting on their lives and the historic moments their nation has seen.of coronavirus infection were confirmed in France. The French are now heading into their second week of home confinement. All non-essential businesses are shuttered. City parks and beaches are closed, from the coast of Brittany to the Mediterranean. Even the banks of the Seine River are off limits to bikers and joggers.
A sense of foreboding prompted her father, who was Jewish, to get out of Paris in 1940, just a couple of months after the Nazis marched into the French capital. Enoch-Maillard says once Nazi soldiers stopped her father and asked to see his hands. He held out fingers calloused from chopping wood and other farm jobs.
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