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Hello and welcome to the Witness History podcast here on the BBC World Service with me

Louise Adagel. Today I'm taking you back to France during the Second World War and

a secret mission to rescue some of Europe's leading intellectuals from the Nazis.

Led by an American journalist, the mission helped some 2,000 people,

among them artists Mark Chagall and Max Ernst, poet Andre Breton and sculptures John Arp and Jacques Libjitz.

Eustus Rosenberg took part in that mission and he's been telling me about it and about his

own narrow escape from the Nazis.

Because in the world of France,

I've been in the long for your views and my so

In spring 1938, a young Jewish boy arrived in Paris to study from the free city of Danzig where local Nazis were now in power.

But a year later, Europe would be at war. Cut off from his family, Eustace Rosenberg

would embark on a hazardous series of events that would change his life and many others.

In May 1940, the German army swept across Holland and Belgium into France. The complete collapse of France follows swiftly.

City after city is abandoned without resistance

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