German Occupation (1940 - 1944)
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Souvenirs de Normandie is an account (in French) by Denise Wolnerman of her time as a young Jewish refugee in Normandy. Born in 1936, she started school in Paris 1942 and was already forced to wear a yellow star. Already aware of the danger represented to Jews by German soldiers, she.was sent to Normandy. This is her own story (with photographs) of her evacuation to Normandy and her time in N D de Cenilly from March 1943 to September 1944 (i.e. before and after the D-Day landings in June 1944).
Souvenirs de Normandie is an account (in French) by Denise Wolnerman of her time as a young Jewish refugee in Normandy. Born in 1936, she started school in Paris 1942 and was already forced to wear a yellow star. Already aware of the danger represented to Jews by German soldiers, she.was sent to Normandy. This is her own story (with photographs) of her evacuation to Normandy and her time in N D de Cenilly from March 1943 to September 1944 (i.e. before and after the D-Day landings in June 1944).