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The moving, poignant true story of a young Jewish girl coming of age in France during World War II, as the Holocaust approaches.
This is the heart-wrenching true story of a young Jewish girl coming of age in France during World War II.
Ninette Dreyfus belonged to one of the most influential Jewish families in Parissecond only to the Rothschildsher parents social circle ranging from Einstein to Colette. But all that privilege counted for nothing when the Nazis arrived; the family was high up on the list of Philippe Petains targets.
Inspired by diary entries and by conversations the author had with Ninette before she died, Ninettes War narrates the familys fall from grace alongside the creeping understanding of the Vichy governments collaboration with the Nazis. Through Ninettes eyes we witness how it all unfolded: from the anti-Semitism in the playgroundsometimes from her own teachersto Ninettes first crush under a false identity.
Woven into the political backdrop of a nation turning inward on itself, this is the tale of a life once filled with riches becoming rootless, where friends were left behind and politicians legislated their own people out of existenceand to their deathsculminating in what we now know as the Holocaust.
Author: John Jay
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 09/02/2025
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.21lbs
ISBN: 9781639369614
Language: English
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