A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1942–1945
Frida Scheps Weinstein
A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1942–1945
Frida Scheps Weinstein
During World War II, a young Jewish girl known as F. is transported to a convent school at the Chateau de Beaujeu, France, where her fascination with catechism clouds her identification with her true heritage.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Hill & Wang
- Year
- 1986
- ISBN-13
- 9780809015290
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Holocaust survivalJewish identityWorld War II France
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or AutobiographyShortlistedMajor(1986)
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