Survival In Nazi-Occupied France: A Memoir & Story Of Making A Life In America: A History Of Paris During Nazi Occupation (Paperback)

Like so much else that happened in France during World War II, the Nazi occupation of Paris was something entirely more complex.

In 1940, when the author was three, Nazi Germany invaded France. Two years later, a roundup of Jews living in the Paris metropolitan area was staged, to deport them to concentration camps. The Jeruchim family, the author's parents, and his brother and sister, avoided arrest, but could no longer remain at home. Later, in 1949, the author and his siblings immigrated to the United States where he became an aerospace engineer and was among those at the forefront of the communication age. But he never fully came to terms with the loss he suffered early in life. Years later, his wife, Joan, a psychologist, urged him to attend the first gathering of Jewish children who had been hidden in WWII. There, the author found kindred spirits, who like him kept their traumatic childhoods inside. His journey to healing and bearing witness, unfolds in his compelling memoir.