Title: Shadows of a childhood
First published: 1998
Description: Elisabeth Gille was five years old when her mother, the Russian writer Irene Nemirovsky, was deported to Auschwitz at the height of her career and never seen again. Gille was hidden in the French countryside with her sister until the war was over. Shadows of a Childhood, winner of Elle's 1997 Grand Prix des Lectrices, is her story, a fictionalized account of one individual's - and one country's - coming to terms with the war.
Subjects: Fiction, Jewish children in the Holocaust, Friendship, Holocaust survivors, Jews, World War, 1939-1945, Jewish orphans, Fiction, historical, France, fiction, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), fiction, Jews, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Bordeaux (France)
LC classification: PQ2667.I395 P3913 1998