Françoise Frenkel > Quotes

“The bitterness of this truth weighs on me still, and will to the end of my days.”
― Françoise Frenkel, A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis

“They implemented the Vichy regulations strictly and inexorably. These subservient men harbored a violent anger accumulated in the wake of the defeat, and it was as if they wanted to take it out on those weaker, less fortunate than themselves. There was nothing heroic about these agents of authority, not their job nor their approach.”
― Françoise Frenkel, A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis