Category: WWII

During the COVID lockdown, Diana Nyad took members of her walking group,  EverWalk, on two virtual journeys: one from Cuba to Florida  (Diana walked on water!) and another along le chemin de la liberté, “The Freedom Trail.”

Those who signed up monitored their progress using a step-tracking app, WalkerTracker, so they could follow “the actual story of Diana Nyad’s mother Lucy” and her “escape from the Nazis over the famous Chemin de la Liberté in the Pyrenees.”

For those of us who missed the virtual Pyrenees walk, Diana kindly posted an abridged version of her tale, “My Mother’s Journey to Freedom” (archived). Here’s a summary:
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[For context, please see “Diana Fabricates Another Holocaust Story, This Time About Her Family.”]

As often happens with Nyad’s tales, this one inflated over time until the last version bore little resemblance to the original.

In 2013, Diana shared on Facebook that her  “mom came to the States from Paris during WWII.” She left it at that.

In a 2014 New Yorker profile, Diana says that Lucy was 17 when the war reached Paris. She joined “a group of people” who bicycled and walked through southern France, then crossed the Pyrenees on foot.

In Find a Way (2015), Diana says her mother was 15 when the German army reached Paris. Her uncle and aunt, concerned about her safety, send her back to the U.S.

Nyad’s Pyrenees prevarications peaked in 2020 with her EverWalk version (archived). So, let’s take it step by step.
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