Maman, what are we called now?
By: by Jacqueline Mesnil-Amar ; translated from the French by Francine Yorke ; with a new preface by Caroline Moorehead ; and with photographs by Thérèse Bonney
Contributors: Yorke, Francine, translator; Bonney, Thérèse, 1894-1978, photographer
Series: Persephone book -- no. 115; Persephone book -- no. 115.
Publisher: Persephone Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781910263051
Subjects: Diaries; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Personal narratives; Jews; World War, 1939-1945
Work titles: Ceux qui ne dormaient pas
Description: Jacqueline Mesnil-Amar (1909-87), the daughter of Jules Perquel, a financier and newspaper editor, and Ellen Allatini, was brought up in the Paris suburb of Passy. In 1928 she went to the Sorbonne and in 1930 married André Amar (1908-90), who was at the École Normale Supérieure; he was the son of a banker who had come to Paris from Salonika. The Amars' daughter Sylvie was born in 1934; meanwhile Jacqueline wrote magazine articles. When war broke out the family lived in Bordeaux, Marseille, Nice and nine different places in Paris, often separately because André was first in the French army and then joined a Jewish resistance network. After 1945 the Amars largely devoted their lives to Jewish causes. In 1957 Jacqueline's diary for 18th July-25th August 1944, together with some of her post-war articles, was published as Ceux qui ne dormaient pas, translated by Persephone Books as Maman, What Are We Called Now?
Notes: "First published by Les Éditions de Minuit in 1957 and by Éditions Stock as a Livre de Poche in 2009, with the title Ceux qui ne dormaient pas: Journal, 1944-46"--Page facing title page.

Translated from the French.