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Auschwitz expliqué à ma fille (Auschwitz Explained to My Daughter) Paris: 1999; Les Biens des internés des camps de Drancy, Pithiviers et Beaune-la-Rolande (The Belongings of Internees in the Drancy, Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande Camps).
Annette Wieviorka. 2009
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In Pithiviers, France, 3M workers virtually held their bosses hostage by standing guard at the building amid labor talks.
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That most recent appointment led her in 2000 to publish two detailed studies of the seizing of Jewish belongings under the German occupation: Les Biens des internés des camps de Drancy, Pithiviers et Beaune-la-Rolande and Le Pillage des appartements et son indemnisation (in collaboration with Florence Azoulay).
Annette Wieviorka. 2009
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He has passed his examinations for collector and goes to Pithiviers — unless by pull, we could get him as substitute at
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When Alain Resnais made his somber masterpiece on Nazi-occupied France, Night and Fog (1955), he was required before the film could be licensed for showing to delete certain scenes in which a French policeman's kepi appears in deportation scenes at the refugee camp at Pithiviers (near Orleans).
Tricks of Memory Paxton, Robert O. 1991
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He related how he had lost himself, and learned from the countryman that he was on the road to Pithiviers.
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"La demoiselle Juliette Dodu of Pithiviers," forty-four years ago a telegraphist who outwitted the German invaders, was taken prisoner, threatened with death, treated chivalrously by the "Red Prince" Friedrich
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On the occasion of our flight south, nothing on the whole journey happened to give us any concern, save at Pithiviers, where a market-wagon with a staid old farm-horse -- who did not mean any harm -- charged us and lifted off the right mud-guard, necessitating an hour's work or more at the blacksmith's to straighten it out again.
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Nearly every town in France has its specialty; Pithiviers its _pâté des allouettes; _ Montélimar its _nougat_; Axat its _mousserons_;
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The only link now with his past lay in the - fact that he had been found abandoned in Pithiviers upon a certain day in June - lay in the evidence which Howard alone could give.
Pied Piper Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1942
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