Françoise Frenkel

Françoise Frenkel (Frymeta, Idesa Raichenstein-Frenkel) est une libraire et écrivain polonaise.

Elle étudie la littérature à Paris, à la Sorbonne. Puis elle part pour Berlin où elle fonde en 1921 la première librairie française, "La Maison du Livre". Elle la tient avec son mari, Simon Rachenstein, d'origine russe.

Simon Rachenstein s'exile à Paris en 1933, tandis qu'elle reste jusqu'en août 1939 à Berlin, qu'elle quitte avec les derniers résidents français, sur les conseils du consul de France. Elle rejoint Paris quelques jours seulement avant le début de la seconde guerre mondiale.

Lors de l'invasion allemande en 1940, grâce à des amis, elle obtient des laisser-passer pour Avignon, puis Vichy, puis Nice. En juin 1943, elle parvient à gagner

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