Title: Résistance
Description: Agnès Humbert was an art historian in Paris during the German occupation in 1940. Though she might well have weathered the oppressive regime, Humbert was stirred to action by the atrocities she witnessed. In an act of astonishing bravery, she joined forces with several colleagues to form an organised resistance. Members of Humbert's group were betrayed to the Gestapo; Humbert herself was imprisoned. Here she describes her time in prison, her deportation to Germany, where for more than two years she endured a string of brutal labour camps, and the horror of discovering that seven of her friends were executed by firing squad.
Subjects: Prisoners of war, World War, 1939-1945, Diaries, German Prisoners and prisons, Underground movements, War Underground movements, Large type books, French Personal narratives, History, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, german, World war, 1939-1945, underground movements, france, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, french, France, history, german occupation, 1940-1945
Places: Germany, France
People: Agnès Humbert
Time periods: German occupation, 1940-1945