Meet
the Author at Paragraphs
Saturday, December 7th- 2:30 to 4:00 p.m.
“WHISPER YOUR NAME into MY
EAR”
a memoir of survival and resistance.
By Marguerite Levy-Feibelman
Join us for an afternoon of intimate conversation with
Marguerite Levy-Feibelman at Paragraphs on Padre Boulevard, South Padre Island.
The program features converstion, readings of selected excerpts, a question and
answer period, book signing with tea and coffee. Marguerite is making her 4th visit
to Paragraphs and is looking forward to share her story with you.
Marguerite, a strong-willed and
idealistic French Jewish teenager immersed in the tradition of liberty,
equality and fraternity, was determined to be treated like everyone else and
live free and independent as her country was overtaken by Nazi soldiers. With the
help and advice of a passeur and the Jewish Scout movement, she tweaks her
parents’ and her own papers and the Levy family assumes the risks to live with
false identities in the French Alps. There, they blend in with the population,
do not bring attention to themselves, and try to live outwardly as normal a
life as possible. An anonymous phone
call at the tobacconist’s: “Can you come into the mountains and do some typing
for two or three days? We’ll take good care of you!” is the start of
Marguerite’s activities in the Resistance.
Whisper Your
Name into My Ear shows the
French Alsatian Albert Levy family from their beginnings in Alsace, then
Mannheim (Germany), to Paris, into the Exodus and beyond, throughout the War.
The memoir weaves a vivid tapestry of World War II in France, highlighting the
contradictions, the split loyalties of the population and the opportunities
arising out of the difficulties of living under hostile authorities.
Teachers
and students will find this event especially interesting as Marguerite embodies
this period of history.
This is free and open to
the public.
Paragraphs On Padre Boulevard, 5505 Padre Blvd. South Padre
Island, TX
For
information call us at 956-433-5057 or www.paragraphsbooks.com
