Doors to Madame Marie

Description:

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, and who is cherished by Odette, even in absentia, as her godmother and mentor.

subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945),  Jews,  Jewish children in the Holocaust,  Ethnic relations,  Versteck,  Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust,  Personal narratives,  Childhood and youth,  Biography,  Judenvernichtung,  Jews, france,  Jews, biography,  Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives,  Jewish children,  France, ethnic relations

People: Odette Meyers,  Marie Chotel

Places: France,  Frankreich