The Library remains open during most of the war

Published by Audrey Chapuis at 10 October 2017

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French woman and American soldier consulting American periodicals at the Library.

As French ambassador Henri Bonnet expressed, the American Library provides “an open window on the free world” during this dark period of European history. During the Occupation, the Library staff mount their own resistance campaign by delivering books to Jewish members who have been forbidden by the Nazis to use libraries.

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