Exceptional resistance

Everything in this unique book is superlative. Everything. Pages ripped me crying. My body was twisted. I smiled, laughed. I wandered the streets (I read while walking) causing the sympathy and discussions, book in hand. My pencil scratched pages, one after the other, as they are beautiful. In the end, I asked.

Son, grand-son of resisting, I read many books on the Resistance. I kept in memory of the episodes of the Maquis of my two uncles, teenagers (15 and 17 then), my mother's stories (7 years) who had to remain silent under threat of arrest and execution his parents, who were links in a chain of rescue Jews, among other activities resistant. "The Rose and the Edelweiss" is exceptional. It was recommended to me by Bertrand Renouvin, political director of "Royalist", resistant to son (Jacques Renouvin, National Chief of Combat Groups Franks, sabotage specialist and derailments, died in deportation to Mauthausen) born in prison (his mother was as strong) that the issue of the Resistance holds dear.

They were thousands of teenagers in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Belgium, Poland, Lithuania, to say NO to Nazi barbarism. Say NO by speech, writing, the poster was running the risk of arrest, imprisonment, torture, the murder, deportation.

Thousands of these teenagers died hanged, guillotined under torture in concentration camps (impressive anthology of the names of these death camps).

Some examples of Humanity:

At Auschwitz Roza Robota and deportation comrades blew up a crematorium.

Jacques Lusseyran, a student aged 17, a student of philosophy at Louis le Grand (Paris) establish, by March 1941, a strong organization "Volunteers of Liberty" that will bring together several hundred teenagers. It will publish a newspaper that will reveal the reality of the extermination camps, publishing photos that will be drawn tens of thousands of copies. Jacques Lusseyran was ... blind! He was arrested and deported to Buchenwald.

Elek Thomas, aka Baby Cadum, will participate in derailing eight trains, including a convoy of 600 German soldiers and officers, and several armed actions. It will be shot with his comrades of the Red Shows February 21, 1944.

Scouts have provided whole battalions of young street urchins and composed this army of small shadows. German scouts (Pirates of the Edelweiss) fought against the Nazis, helped Jews to escape. There were more than 3,000 in Cologne!

Same in Poland help the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto to which many of them were teenagers. How many were those who, having managed to survive the crushing of the ghetto they sacrificed their lives during the Warsaw Uprising!

On each page, or even a number of examples, which already give ideas to make films, as they are rich. The author, himself the son of a young resistant, achieved a colossal working memory rehabilitation. The historians of the Resistance, hitherto ignored, downplayed these stories, the fundamental role played by teenagers in the fight for freedom. This duty to remember just spoke. He calls other work.

We owe them so much.