by Anne Sinclair · Editions Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782072920318
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«La rafle des notables» is Anne Sinclair's historical account, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (128 pages, in French).
Anne Sinclair starts from her grandfather Léonce Schwartz, who escaped deportation, to reconstruct the «rafle des notables»: in December 1941, 743 French Jews —businessmen, lawyers, writers and magistrates— were arrested and confined with 300 foreign Jews at the Compiègne camp, from which the first convoy to Auschwitz left in March 1942.
The book belongs to the Folio collection of Editions Gallimard; its publication date is 2 September 2021.
For readers interested in the history of France during the Second World War, the Nazi occupation and the memory of the Holocaust.
Anne Sinclair is a French-American television and radio interviewer. She hosted one of the most popular political shows for more than thirteen years on TF1, the largest European private TV channel. She is heiress to much of the fortune of her maternal grandfather, art dealer Paul Rosenberg. She covered the 2008 US presidential campaign for the French Sunday newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche and the French TV channel Canal+. She married French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 1991 and divorced him in 2013 in the aftermath of the New York v. Strauss-Kahn case. She was portrayed in the 2014 feature film Welcome to New York.
