Edith Piaf and Prisoners, Germany, 1944.
The singer once performed in one of the camps, where she was photographed with one hundred and twenty prisoners. Upon her return to Paris, Piaf gave the photo to an underground workshop, where the face of each prisoner was reproduced on a separate card, enlarged and glued to a false identity.
The singer carried these documents in a double-bottomed suitcase, arriving for a concert at the same location. She drove several people out disguised as her musicians with fake IDs right away; others escaped later.
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