From a World Apart
Subtitle: A Little Girl in the Concentration Camps
Contributors: Nathan Bracher (Introduction); Christine Burls (Translator)
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: April 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780803264021
Subjects: Biography: general; European history: Second World War; The Holocaust; Jewish girls; History: World; Childhood and youth; Paris; Women; Jewish Holocaust Personal Narratives; Jewish - General; History; Biography / Autobiography; Personal narratives; Europe; Christophe, Francine,; Childhood Memoir; Historical - Holocaust; History / Military / World War II; 1933-; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish children in the Holocaust; Biography; France
Description: "Francine Christophe's account begins in 1939, when her father was called up to fight with the French army. A year later he was taken prisoner by the Germans. Hearing of the Jewish arrests in France from his prison camp, he begged his wife and daughter to flee Paris for the unoccupied southern zone. They were arrested during the attempted escape and subsequently interned in the French camps of Poitiers, Drancy, and Beaune-la-Rolande. In 1944 they were deported to Bergen-Belsen in Germany.".

"In short, seemingly neutral paragraphs, Christophe relates the trials that she and her mother underwent. Writing in the present tense, she tells her story without passion, without judgment, without complaint. Yet from these unpretentious, staccato sentences surges a well of tenderness and human warmth. We live through the child's experiences, as if we had gone hand in hand with her through the death camps."--BOOK JACKET.