Am Leben

Portrait of an Indomitable -Intervading portrait of Rose (Rösli) Näf from Glarus, who was later honoured as the "Righteous Among the Nations" -Insolent Swiss woman who ran a home for Jewish war children in France during the Second World War -The novel Im Süden Frankreichs (In the South of France) is based on historical facts. Between 1940 and 1944, one hundred Jewish children from Germany and Austria lived in a run-down country castle. Thirty-year-old Rose from Glarus, who previously worked as a nurse for Albert Schweitzer in Lambarene, takes up her new position here. She takes over the management of the house and offers the children in the still unoccupied zone protection and security. The Swiss Red Cross decides to work with her shortly afterwards. After Nazi Germany also occupied the south of France, the threat increases dramatically. One morning who.