Enfant cachée: souvenirs de la France occupée (1940-1945)

Memoirs of Michaeli (née Schapiro), a Jew born in 1928 near Paris to a family of Eastern European origin. She was separated from her mother in September 1942 and sent to southern France, where her two older brothers were already living. She shared an apartment with one brother in Marseille until he went into hiding in 1943. Her other brother had fled to Algiers to lead the Éclaireurs Israélites there. After spending some time in various places in southern France, Michaeli returned to Paris under a false identity. She stayed with an aunt until spring 1944, then moved to Normandy. After the liberation she joined her father in Palestine, but soon returned to the Paris suburb where she grew up. She was reunited with her brothers. Her mother was arrested in 1942 and deported to Auschwitz in 1943, where she perished; her letters to her daughter from Paris and from the camps in Mérignac and Drancy are included.