personal narratives, french

"Autobiography addressing the author's childhood experience of inner spiritual vision after becoming blind as a boy, his forming a boys' resistance group in occupied Paris at age seventeen (which later merged with D?fense de la France), and his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp"--Provided by publisher.

Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, the author, a graphic designer, was drawn to beautiful handwriting in some old letters. They were in French and had been signed by a man named Marcel and posted from Berlin to France during World War II. Her curiosity aroused, she began to trace Marcel's life and to try and find out the answer to his fate. In the meantime she immortalized Marcel's handwriting as the acclaimed P22 Marcel Script font.

The author, a Jehovah's Witness, describes her family's persecution by the Nazis, discussing her punishments and humiliations by teachers, her reeducation experiences, and the imprisonments of her parents and relatives.

A memoir in which Genevieve de Gaulle, the niece of General Charles de Gaulle, discusses her experiences after joining the French Underground in 1940 at the age of nineteen where she spent three years before being arrested and shipped to the Nazi death camp, Ravensbruck.