Over the highest mountains
Subtitle: a memoir of unexpected heroism in France during World War II
By: 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.
Contributors: Ingerslev, Aase.; Gorfinkel, Claire.
Publisher: Intentional Productions
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Pasadena, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Synnestvedt, Alice Resch, 1908-; World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- France.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- France.; Child 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.; Nurses -- Norway -- Biography.; France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.
Genres: Personal narratives, Norwegian.; Biography.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263) and index.