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DianeTuckman and Cecile Spiegel fled religious persecution with WWII conflicts attheir heels. Separately, from Egypt and from Germany, each leaped continents,cultures, and languages as a refugee before finding a new home in the UnitedStates. Hiding in plain sight in France, Cecile eluded capture by the Nazis, butlost many dear to her. Diane came of age there, far from the Mediterraneanidyll of her childhood in Egypt. They relied on family, faith, and resilience toovercome the otherness felt by displaced peoples. As they dictated their memoirsto one another, Diane and Cecile discovered the anatomy of their friendship intheir parallel odysseys and the optimism of 20th-century American womanhood.

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Cecile Spiegel(1915-2010) was born in Nuremberg, Germany, the only child of loving parents.She escaped to France amid rising Nazi persecution. She survived WWII hidden inthe countryside with aid from French Resistance members. Cecile worked for Americanforces in post-war France before immigrating to America, where she became aFrench teacher. DianeTuckman was born in 1935 in Heliopolis, Egypt. At the start of the Arab-Israelwar in 1948, her family fled mounting oppression. They settled in France, whereDiane translated for American forces before moving to the United States. Anoted silk painter, she is a founder of Silk Painters International (SPIN).

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