"I'm frightened, Mother. Last year, I was seven years old. This
year, I'm eight and so many years separate these two ages. I have
learned that I am Jewish, that I am a monster, and that I must hide
myself. I'm frightened all the time."--Francine Christophe.
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.
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