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A Hidden Childhood a Jewish girl's sanctuary in a French convent, 1942-1945
A Hidden Childhood a Jewish girl's sanctuary in a French convent 19421945 Author:Frida Schleps Weinstein A vivid memoir of a young Jewish girl who is sent from her Jewish neighborhood in Paris by her mother to a Catholic convent school at the Chateau be Beaujeu. It is 1942 and the little girls 's move is meant to shield her from capture by the German Nazis. The story is told from her point of view, detailing how she embraces Catholicism in the be... more »ginning, but the memories of her old life among Jewish refugees in Paris grow increasingly vivid when she learns her mother has been taken by the Nazis.« less