The Wenger Case

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The Wenger Affair is not only a personal, intimate work. It also recounts the struggle of those who understood, among the first, what was happening in the USSR of Stalin, and were ready to pay the price to defend freedom in the era of totalitarianisms.

“I should have had studious and quiet days, when the story of my father caught up with me. Jean Weinberger, alias Wenger, a father I never knew. Poet and novelist of Jewish origin, activist journalist for the Hungarian group PCF, lover of France and freedom, he was deported to Drancy on September 25, 1942, then assassinated at the age of 33 by the Nazis... Of the tragedy that had occurred before and which had precipitated his loss, I knew almost nothing... Nothing about the living legend that he had been in the circles of antifascism during the 1930s. Nothing of the intrigues hatched in high places, from Moscow to Paris, into an evil gear. But enough however to give this story the accents of a political thriller...

Catherine Weinberger-Thomas