The sixth transport of French Jews bound for the Nazi death camps of occupied Poland left France on 17 July 1942. On board were craftsmen, jewellers, cabinet-makers, tanners and 200 people from Dijon. Among them was a 39-year-old novelist, Irène Némirovsky, born in Kiev and driven into exile in France by the Russian Revolution. Within six weeks she was dead of the typhus epidemic that swept through Auschwitz that summer.

Literary Review

Mar 2010

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Caroline Moorehead

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

Against the Dying Light

Soldier, Soldier

Oncle Sam

A Fearful Freedom

The Garden Party

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib