Claire Messud
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiii, 176 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Four months before Hitler came to power, Saul Friedländer was born in Prague to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1939, seven-year-old Saul and his family were forced to flee to France, where they lived through the German Occupation, until his parents' ill-fated attempt to flee to Switzerland. They were able to hide their son in a Roman Catholic seminary before being sent to Auschwitz where they were killed. After an imposed religious conversion,...