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Chapter 35

High above the artificial clouds that covered Paris, a new dawn was breaking. Far to the east strange apparitions were huddled against the clearing sky-phantoms that had the bluish tinge of the victims of Nazi gas chambers. Then the stiffly moving silhouettes seemed to vibrate with the lucid color of morning until the skies were aglow with radiant sunshine-it was the miracle of Stalingrad!

With new courage and faith Paris awoke eager to share the day of ultimate triumph.

From their underground shelters the Partisans emerged, triple-steeled by the victory in the West, filling all France with their new found strength, girding with the invincible power of the People.

Leaving the children in the care of Marguerite, Anna returned to Paris. Louise died early in the fall. As a French citizen, the legal daughter of Roland Rousseaux, Anna had found no difficulty in getting to Paris. Introduced by Berger into the inner circle of the Underground, she was promptly sent to Grenoble. Here she learned how to smuggle Jewish children across the Swiss border.

Blundering through woods and over mountains with a group of bewildered children wasn't exactly an easy task. At times there was an infant who had to be carried all the way. In the rear the French militia, in front the border guards