Coffee, Croque-monsieurs and a Juliette balcony: How my British step-grandmother helped the French resistance to liberate Paris in August 1944

My step-grandmother, Hester Kennard, had made up here mind that she was going to live in Paris (before the war). Germans invaded (France) while she was living there, and because she was an alien, she was rounded up, possibly denounced by someone in her apartment block, and dragged away by the Germans. She was placed in a women's camp - luckily, relatives in England petitioned the Red Cross to intervene. A visiting delegation was used to inspect camps/prisons, and they reviewed the case of a small group of ladies who they deemed too frail for camp/prison conditions. This is how step-grandmother... Mehr ...