A biography of Elberg's father, Michel Elberg, a Jew born in Romania who emigrated to France in the 1920s. In autumn 1942 Elberg was arrested in Paris and sent to Compiègne. A year later he was transferred to Drancy where, as a doctor in the infirmary, he set up a network for re…
"It is a moving portrayal of how a young woman's carefree life in Paris is slowly shattered as she becomes increasingly certain of her eventual terrible fate ... Perhaps inevitably, Berr has already been described as France's Anne Frank. But although the two young women both die…