BBC World Histories - 08.2019 - 09.2019

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Local hero

Lisa Fittko, pictured in 1989. She led Walter

Benjamin, and many other Jewish refugees, on

paths from France across the Pyrenees in hope

of finding passage through Spain to safety

“Old Benjamin” at work

Walter Benjamin in a Paris

library, 1937. He had left

Germany when Hitler became

chancellor, and was living in

France when Germany

invaded, prompting him to

seek safety elsewhere

Mountains of freedom

A dusty trail leads into the Pyrenees near

Banyuls-sur-Mer, from where Benjamin and

Fittko headed towards the Spanish border in

1940. An estimated 20,000-30,000 Jews
      crossed these mountains during the war

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