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	Lisa Fittko New York Times obit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-13)
		Fittko's death was announced on German radio and television, and obituaries appeared in the major national newspapers.
		Lisa Ekstein was born in 1909 in Uzhgorod in what was then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire; it later became part of Czechoslovakia, then part of the Soviet Union and today is part of Ukraine.
		Fittko was soon joined on the French side of the border by her husband, who had not been able to find sea passage.
	www.chambon.org /fry_fittko_nyt_en.htm (1148 words)

	Lisa Fittko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lisa Fittko's life was formed in her work in the underground resistance of Nazi occupied Europe.
		She came to international recognition over forty years later through her two widely-translated memoirs, in which she describes her actions (considered inspirational by many who read about them) in the voice of a fearless young woman, a bohemian, an activist.
		Fittko emerged from a leftist, artistic family to become active in the resistance to Hitler in the early months of his rule, then fled to continue the fight in other European countries for seven years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lisa_Fittko (351 words)

	David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies: Welcome
		Fittko, who passed away in Chicago's Provident Hospital on March 12 at age 95, was an unlikely Holocaust rescue hero whose extraordinary deeds are just beginning to receive recognition.
		Fittko lived in a tiny back room of a candy shop, preparing anti-Hitler leaflets while playing a record of "Aida" on high volume to mask the sound of her typing.
		Lisa was sent to Gurs, a women's detention camp near the Pyrenees mountains and the French-Spanish border.
	wymaninstitute.org /articles/2005-04-fittko.php (2280 words)

	Hatred at One End, Rejection at the Other
		Benjamin was fortunate in his guide, Lisa Fittko, who was exploring the route thoroughly for the first time when she led him and another pair of refugees to Spain.
		Fittko is one of the countless heroes who rose to confront disaster.
		Fittko came to the southeast corner of France alone to look for escape routes and was given enormous assistance by the townspeople of Banyuls and their socialist mayor, who told her about a smuggler's route that had also been used by the communist Gen. Enrique Lister in the Spanish Civil War.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/0802-09.htm (1625 words)

	Print Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-13)
		Lisa Fittko, 95, who achieved fame, particularly in Germany, by leading Jews and members of the anti-Hitler resistance from Nazi-occupied France to Spain, died March 12 in Chicago.
		Fittko and her husband, Hans, became part of the rescue mission of Varian Fry, an American who is credited with saving about 2,000 people, many of them artists and intellectuals.
		She said Fittko's death was announced on German radio and television, and obituaries appeared in the major national newspapers.
	www.insidebayarea.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2615607 (958 words)

	ManifestoLibri.it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-13)
		Lisa Fittko, nata nel 1909 a Uzhorod (attuale Russia), dal 1948 vive a Chicago dove è ancora attiva nel movimento pacifista.
		Nel 1933, a causa del suo impegno politico contro il regime nazifascista, abbandonò col marito Hans Fittko la Germania per organizzare la resistenza in Svizzera, Olanda e Francia, dove venne internata nel campo di concentramento di Gurs.
		Attraverso l'F-Route, Lisa e Hans Fittko riuscirono a far passare la frontiera clandestinamente a centinaia di esuli, tra i tanti anche Walter Benjamin.
	www.manifestolibri.it /vedi_indice.php?id=250 (132 words)

	Club-Voltaire München: Catherine Stodolsky - "Mein Weg über die Pyrenäen"
		Buchvorstellung mit Catherine Stodolsky, Historikerin und Nichte von Lisa Fittko: www.lrz-muenchen.de/~catherine.stodolsky.
		Lisa Fittko, geborene Ekstein, muss wegen ihrer antifaschistischen Widerstandsarbeit aus Berlin fliehen.
		Catherine Stodolsky schreibt nun selbst an einem Buch über ihre Tante und kann uns aus eigenem Erleben über Lisa Fittko erzählen.
	www.cv-muc.de /2005/maerz07.htm (281 words)

	spin doctor state: March 2005
		Lisa fled Berlin in 1933, and met her future husband Hans in Prague later that year.
		Famously, in 1940, Lisa Fittko led the German writer/critic Walter Benjamin over the border between France and Spain to the small Spanish town of Port Bou.
		Fittko was the author of two autobiographical books: Escape Over the Pyrenees, and Solidarity Unwished, both published by Northwestern University Press.
	spindoctorstate.blogspot.com /2005_03_01_spindoctorstate_archive.html (203 words)

	IIT History Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-13)
		The History Club at IIT is pleased to invite you to a very special program: a presentation by Lisa Fittko, a German Jew who was active in the anti-fascist resistance movement in both Germany and France.
		In her presentation, Lisa Fittko will share her thoughts and experiences on why the Nazis rose to power, why she joined the resistance, and what it was like to actively oppose the Nazis.
		Lisa Fittko now lives in Chicago and is the author of "Escape Through the Pyrenees" and "Solidarity and Treason : Resistance and Exile, 1933-1940".
	www.iit.edu /~jainank/history/announcements/fittko.html (212 words)

	Missing Link (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-13)
		Lisa Fittko, now 92, has published two memoirs on her wartime experiences.
		Spivek learned of Fittko on a trip to Berlin with her mother, a German Jew who fled the Gestapo in 1939.
		Eisendrath realized that Fittko was living close to his mother in Chicago, and the couple went to interview her and began writing their script.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/Archived/2002-03-28/theater4.shtml (357 words)

	x-berg.de \| Ex-Kreuzbergerin Lisa Fittko gestorben
		Nach seiner Freilassung hielt sich das Ehepaar Fittko zunächst in Marseille auf um anschließend die Fluchthilfe über die französisch-spanische Grenze zu organisieren.
		1941 floh Lisa Fittko nach Kuba und arbeitete in Havanna in einer Ausbildungsstätte für deutsche jüdische Flüchtlinge.
		Lisa Fittkos Buch 'Solidarität unerwünscht', endet mit folgendem apellativen Schlusswort, als sie beschreibt wie Frankreich sich dem faschistischen Deutschland ergeben muß:
	www.x-berg.de /article.pl?sid=05/03/16/0739246&mode=thread (456 words)

	Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag: Mein Weg über die Pyrenäen
		Es wäre nicht geschrieben worden, wenn nicht durch einen Zufall Gershom Scholem von Lisa Fittko gehört und sie gedrängt hätte, ihre Pyrenäenüberquerung mit Walter Benjamin (der sich dann, seine Verhaftung befürchtend, nach dem Grenzübertritt in Spanien das Leben nahm) aufzuschreiben.
		Die "F-Route" ist für die Fittkos nur eine Station einer langen Odyssee, die 1933 in Berlin begann und sie über Prag, Zürich und Amsterdam nach Paris führte.
		1940 wurde Lisa Fittko als "feindliche Ausländerin" in dem berüchtigten Frauenlager von Gurs interniert.
	www.dtv.at /_google/titel/titel62189.htm (275 words)

	World Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-13)
		Lisa Fittko (1909-2005) was a young woman who lived through the Nazi occupation of Europe.
		Catherine Stodolsky's biographical information on her aunt [2] (http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~catherine.stodolsky/lisa/lisa.html) is the best source for a full historical account of Lisa's life:
		Remembering Lisa Fittko, Holocaust rescue hero, By Rafael Medoff (http://www.chijewishnews.com/archives_articles.jsp?id=192934)
	www.worldencyclopedia.net /index.php?title=Lisa_Fittko (368 words)

	Lisa Fittko (1909-2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-13)
		Per Lisa Fittko, the crossing point into Spain, through the foothills, was farther to the right, not in this photograph.
		Lisa Ekstein (Fittko) at age 6 in Vienna in 1916, and at 15 in Berlin in 1925
		Lisa and Hans Fittko, in Cassis, France, summer 1941, and in Havana, Cuba,
	www.chambon.org /fry_fittko_en.htm (1519 words)

	Amazon.fr : Chroniques et points de vue Livres en anglais: Escape Through the Pyrenees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-13)
		Fittko's clipped and compressed writing style, combined with much minutiae on French bureaucratic red tape and the refugees' chase after ever-elusive transit visas, diminish the book's emotional impact.
		Fittko's book is a memoir of life as an "enemy alien" in France before and after the Nazi invasion of 1940.
		As a Jewish leftist reared in Berlin, Fittko and her husband Hans fled Germany in 1933 to apparent safety in France.
	www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/english-books/0810109751/reviews (446 words)

	AGNI \| 57 \| Essay \| 'WB on the Treadmill' by Harvey Blume
		So, at any rate, his guide, Lisa Fittko, warned him, at the end of what was meant to be an exploratory hike, when WB, pleading his bad heart, chose to remain on the mountain alone, overnight, rather than start up all over again the next day.
		Another scene that haunted me from his climb: Benjamin, Fittko, and Jose, her companion, come to a particularly difficult stretch, a nearly vertical incline, which Benjamin, in “even tones,” says he can’t manage.
		Fittko and Jose put him between them, get his arms around their shoulders, and pretty much heave him uphill.
	www.bu.edu /agni/essays-reviews/print/2003/57-blume.html (2592 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Solidarity and Treason: Resistance and Exile, 1933-1940 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-13)
		The story begins in 1933 when Lisa Ekstein was threatened during a torchlight parade in Berlin for not giving the stiff-armed Hitler salute.
		Fittko's memoir conveys vividly what it was like to exist on the run without income or papers.
		This book, along with a companion volume, "Escape Through the Pyrenees", introduces the reader to the experience of life in exile, the stress of being stateless in a world where everyone seemed to be demanding your papers, and a world where the Gestapo was anxious to ship people like you off to a concentration camp.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0810111292 (667 words)

	Chicago Jewish News -- Jewish Chicago's Hometown Newspaper - Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-13)
		But the groups of travelers whom Lisa Fittko led across that summit in 1940- 41 had no time to enjoy the breathtaking view.
		In an interview with the Vancouver Sun many years later, she said that she had acted out carelessness-"I was stupid, but not that stupid." In any event, pursued both as a Jew and an anti-Nazi activist, Fittko fled to Prague.
		Lisa was sent to Gurs, a women's detention camp near the Pyrenees mountains and the French- Spanish border.
	www.chijewishnews.com /archives_articles.jsp?id=192934 (2195 words)

	links3.html
		Fittko later published her now-famous memoirs, "Escape Through the Pyrenees," in which Benjamin's briefcase comes close to playing the starring role.
		Fittko says it was impossible to separate Benjamin from his case, though carrying it was a strain.
		When Fittko offered to carry it for him as they set out, she says Benjamin protested that "My new manuscript is in there" and explained, "You know, this briefcase is the most important thing to me...
	www.wbenjamin.org /links3.html (3499 words)

	Resisting Paradise - Synopsis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-13)
		One month after my interview with Marie Ange she was hospitalized and unable to attend the ceremony and receive the medal in person.
		Lisa Fittko, a political exile from Germany fled to Paris and then Cassis during WWII.
		She led the important historian Walter Benjamin, over the Pyrénées into Spain where he hoped to gain a transit visa to Portugal, and, eventually, the United States.
	www.barbarahammerfilms.com /rp_synopsis.html (420 words)

	Solidarity and Treason, Lisa Fittko (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-13)
		Lisa Fittko's gripping memoir of the antifascist resistance in Germany opens with Hitler's ascension to power in January 1933, and continues through her flight to Czechoslovakia and, later, across Europe.
		"The Fittkos lived the Resistance, they carried on the Resistance on a personal scale that was often more spectacular and more heroic than what was happening on a grand scale.
		Lisa Fittko, who now lives in Chicago, tells her story calmly and without self-pity.
	nupress.northwestern.edu /title.cfm?ISBN=0-8101-1129-2 (112 words)

	Is the Way We and the Japanese Now Remember World War II Significant?
		For example, this spring Lisa Fittko, who had helped such figures as Hannah Arendt and Marc Chagall escape Europe, died at age 95.
		In Japan, it is not hard to make the imaginative jump that recognizes the extent to which Asian suffering was caused by the same callousness on the part of the Japanese state that led to Japanese suffering.
		And for Americans, who have been accustomed to imagine their community of interest with the people Lisa Fittko guided across the Pyrenees since the 1940s, it seems less and less appropriate to draw the line there without including Asian victims too.
	hnn.us /articles/12240.html (1987 words)

	Welcome to DelawareValley.org!
		The Fittkos rescued hundreds of Jewish, political, and other refugees by joining forces with Varian Fry, an American editor who had been sent by the Emergency Rescue Committee in New York to try to save Jewish artists and intellectuals.
		Still alive, at 92, in Chicago, Lisa Fittko has been the subject of two recent German films and has been honored by the German government with memorials in France and Spain.
		Playwright Roberta Spivek, the daughter and granddauughter of German Jewish refugees, heard the inspiring story of Lisa Fittko in 1994, while accompanying her mother on a reconciliation visit to Berlin.
	www.delawarevalley.org /fullstory.shtml?Display=FullStory&StoryNum=406 (535 words)

	Club Voltaire: Termine
		Lisa Fittko: Mein Weg über die Pyrenäen - Erinnerungen 1940/41
		Mitte März starb in Chicago Lisa Fittko im Alter von 95 Jahren.
		Zusammen mit ihrem Mann Hans hatte sie in verschiedenen Ländern Europas antifaschistische Widerstandsarbeit geleistet und ab 1940 für Hunderte von Verfolgten des Naziregimes die Flucht über die Pyrenäen organisiert.
	club-voltaire.frankfurt.org /cv_frankfurt_org/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen/va-0087 (113 words)

	de.indymedia.org \| Fluchthelferin Lisa Fittko gestorben
		refugee smuggler), Antifaschistin, Widerstandskämpferin und Schriftstellerin Lisa Fittko im Alter von 96 Jahren in Chicago gestorben ist.
		In Lisa Fittkos Buch ‚Mein Weg über die Pyrenäen’ wird die notwendige Fluchthilfe-Organisationsarbeit der Fittkos ausführlich beschrieben, ein Buch von dem Jürgen Habermas schrieb: «Es gibt gewisse Bücher, auch heute noch,...
		Lisa Fittkos Erinnerungen an die Jahre 1940/41 sind von dieser Art.» Lisa Fittko hatte auch u.a.
	de.indymedia.org /2005/03/109362.shtml (473 words)

	Joachim Liss-Walther (Herausgeber) * Kieler Bürger-Bibel ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-13)
		Lisa Maxey, Jim Magnusson - Rehabilitation for the Post...
		Lisa de Boor, Robert Goebel - Hemd, Hut und Hose...
		Lisa Bany-Winters, Lisa Bany- Winters - Theater-Spiel-Training für Kinder...
	www.risultato.de /risuvvvdjcdjb.html (48 words)

	Not In My Bible: WWII heroine dead at age 95
		Will there be an American Lisa Fittko when they come for you?
		Lisa Fittko, a native German who helped the persecuted escape the nazis during their reign has died of pneumonia at the age of 95.
		Many of those she assisted in flight from the nazis were cultural figures; none has a story odder than that of Walter Benjamin,a literary critic and philosopher whose work has of late attracted newfound interest.
	notinmybible.blogspot.com /2005/03/wwii-heroine-dead-at-age-95.html (173 words)

	Listmania! tales of exile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-13)
		Lisa Fittko's extraordinary account of the anti-Nazi resistance and her effort to stay one step ahead of the Gestapo as the Nazis overran Europe.
		This book continues Lisa Fittko's account as France falls to the Nazis and refugees attempt to flee Europe or wind up in concentration camps.
		The author, herself a left-wing Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany, describes the effort of a young German Communist to evade arrest by the Gestapo.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/1AJCK5ZZU0UXS (884 words)

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