Over the highest mountains : a memoir of unexpected heroism in France during World War II / Alice Resch Synnestvedt ; edited by Aase Ingerslev (1998) and Claire Gorfinkel (2004) ; translated from the Norwegian, French, and Danish by Ann Kunish (2000) ; with a preface by Howard Wriggins.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: D809.F7 S96 2005

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Summary: "Alice Resch Synnestvedt became an unlikely hero upon discovering Quaker relief workers in France in 1939. She spent six years assisting Jewish and other refugees escaping from the Nazis. She wrote this detailed memoir for her deaf mother in 1945. Over fifty years later she was honored by those whose lives she saved"--Provided by publisher.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Synnestvedt, Alice Resch, 1908-
Published: Pasadena, Calif. : Intentional Productions, 2005
Locale: France
Norway
Other Authors/Editors: Ingerslev, Aase.
Gorfinkel, Claire.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 263) and index.

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--France. World War, 1939-1945--Children--France. Child internment camp inmates--Care--France. Child Nazi concentration camp inmates--Care--France. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Norwegian. France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. Nurses--Norway--Biography. Autobiographies. Personal narratives. Synnestvedt, Alice Resch,--1908-

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