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Two middle-aged women defied the Nazis. One ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other. 

JL;DR SUMMARY The story of Etta Shiber and Kate Bonnefous, two middle-aged women in Nazi-occupied Paris, is revisited in Matthew Goodman's 'Paris Undercover,' which reveals a complex tale of courage and betrayal. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish IdentityFrench ResistanceNazi Occupied ParisShiberBonnefousParis UndercoverEtta ShiberKate BonnefousParis UndergroundWartime Memoirs

Places mentioned

Paris, France
"middle-aged women in Nazi-occupied Paris who sheltered dozens of British and French soldiers trapped behind enemy lines"
France
"His source text was Paris-Underground, an enormously popular account of their exploits first published in 1943"
New York, United States
"and thought the story would make an inspiring novel about the French underground. He took the idea to Paul Winkler, another Hungarian Jew who had fled Paris and reestablished his publishing and literary agency in New York."

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