Doors to Madame Marie

by Odette Meyers

Book Overview

This eloquent and spirited memoir of a young Jewish girl's coming of age in Nazi-occupied France recounts her own family's difficult and brave survival and portrays as well the love and quiet heroism of her rescuers. A powerful central figure is Madame Marie Chotel, the Catholic concierge and seamstress who hides seven-year-old Odette and her mother in her broom closet while police search, who secures the child's safe haven in a distant province,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295975768
• ISBN13: 9780295975764
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Giving hearts open doors

This book had a profound effect on me. I don't totally agree with the first review on this page. Possibly the reviewer should read the book again since he/she seemed to miss the pivotal message woven throughout this book like a fine golden thread in a tapestry.The solid footing the author stood on was to keep your heart swept out of insiduous practices like racial and ethnic intolerances that lead to atrocities such as the Holocaust. "Dust doesn't announce itself." she says as she likens our hearts to the apartment house of the next century. Be courteous to one another, follow the Golden Rule, and put this book on your list of books to read. You won't be sorry you did.