Beneath the Vineyards: French Winemakers Who Built an Underground Bunker System Beneath Their Estates and Hid 200 Jewish Families for Three Years

Above ground, the vines. Below ground, the secret the vines were keeping.

Burgundy, France. November 1941. Henri Moreau, the winemaker at the Domaine Moreau-Lafarge in Pommard, has watched the German occupation systematically dismantle the lives of his Jewish neighbors for eighteen months. His wine broker of thirty years has lost his license. His hardware merchant has been forced to sell. His neighbors have been stripped of everything. And the deportations are beginning.

Henri has something t...