From a World Apart: A Litle Girl in the Concentration Camps

by Francine Christophe

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080326402X
• ISBN13: 9780803264021
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A Young Girl's Past

Francine Christophe's account of her experiences at the French Concentration Camps at Poitiers, Drancy and Beaune-La-Rolande, it is a very interesting book. She tells the story in a very personal way. She leaves nothing out and tells an honest story about her experience in the camps. Her honest writing helped me understand the hardship that a whole group of children survived during War World 2. I would want people to read the book and see what those people went through at those camps.

A woman remebers herself as child in a concentration camp

It is horrible, very real and at the same time beautiful.