Norman Lebrecht

For Jews in Occupied France, survival was a matter of luck

Hadley Freeman movingly describes the very different fates of the Glass family as they attempted to escape the Nazis

The Occupation of Paris by the Nazis. Credit: Getty Images
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  • House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a 20th-Century Jewish Family

    Hadley Freeman

    4th Estate, pp. 435, £16

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