Peter Grose - A Good Place To Hide

In Conversation with Cyra McFadden

A Good Place To Hide is about the extraordinary rescue of Jews and others in France during World War 2, by the villagers of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and the surrounding communes. It’s a remarkable story, full of exotic characters: an unswerving pacifist pastor who was awarded the Medal of the Resistance with Rosette, the highest order of that proud French military decoration; the glamorous female SOE agent with a wooden leg (which she called ‘Cuthbert’), who helped to arm and organise the Resistance on the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon; the 18-years-old Latvian Jewish typewriter repairman who forged 5000 sets of fake papers, and whose only ambition was to be a doctor; the 15-years-old schoolgirl whose parents tried to keep her out of harm’s way in Le Chambon, and who risked her life running suitcases stuffed with money for the Resistance, and many others. Booklist wrote: “This is a beautifully written tribute to their community and an outstanding contribution to Holocaust literature."

Peter Grose is a writer, publisher and journalist.

Cyra McFadden is an American writer, living in the San Francisco Bay Area.

 

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