‘To lift such a heavy weight, Sisyphus,’ wrote Irène Némirovsky in notes for her novel Suite Française, ‘you will need all your courage. I do not lack the courage to complete the task but the goal is far and time is short.’ She did not realise quite how short it would be. It was then June 1942. On 13 July the French police came to arrest her. She was interned in the concentration camp at Pithiviers, south of Orléans, and the next day deported to Auschwitz. A month later she was dead.

Mar 2006

Faith and Hope in the United Nations

His Writing Was Love

Witnesses of the Persecution

To the Bitter End

Occupational Hazards

Justice Defined

Farewell to Arms

Glossed in Translation

‘Save Europe Now’

Both Sides of the Lens

Feeding The Beast

Ravenous for her Roots

Waiting For Glory

Place of Terror

Life & Death in the Susa Valley

The Second Sex

Mayhem All Around

The Great Aid Caravan

Fire In the Blood

Against the Dying Light

Soldier, Soldier

Oncle Sam

A Fearful Freedom

The Garden Party

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

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