On the occasion of the publication of
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The Wenger Affair
“I should have had some quiet, studious days when my father’s story 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 25 September 1942, then murdered at the age of 33 by the Nazis... Of the tragedy that had taken place before and which had precipitated his loss, I knew almost nothing... Nothing of the living legend that he had been in anti-fascist circles during the 1930s. Nothing of the intrigues hatched in high places, from Moscow to Paris, into an evil spiral. But enough, however, to give this story the accents of a political thriller... ”
Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
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