Description
Still a boy at the time of his deportation, Michlin survives the Holocaust probably in part thanks to his great gift for thinking on his feet, and for his skills as a tool and die maker. Still, the great question looms: how could a family like his, of non-religious, assimilated Jews, have been so easily given up on by friends and neighbors, when in opportunity after opportunity those same people could have taken simple steps to divert them from their fate?
The reviews show a work of unexpected literary merit as well as a great scholarly contribution, both for the look at Vichy France and for the reflection on the roots of French anti-Semitism.