**The moving, poignant true story of a young Jewish girl coming of age in France during World War II, as the Holocaust approaches.*This is the heart-wrenching true story of a young Jewish girl coming of age in France during World War II. Ninette Dreyfus belonged to one of the most influential Jewish...

**The moving, poignant true story of a young Jewish girl coming of age in France during World War II, as the Holocaust approaches.*This is the heart-wrenching true story of a young Jewish girl coming of age in France during World War II. Ninette Dreyfus belonged to one of the most influential Jewish families in Paris--second only to the Rothschilds--her parents' social circle ranging from Einstein to Colette. But all that privilege counted for nothing when the Nazis arrived; the family was high up on the list of Philippe Petain's targets. Composed through diary entries and conversations the author had with Ninette before she died, Ninette's War * narrates the family's fall from grace alongside the creeping understanding of the Vichy government's collaboration with the Nazis. Through Ninette's eyes we witness how it all unfolded: from the anti-Semitism in the playground--sometimes from her own teachers--to Ninette's first crush under a false identity. Woven into the political backdrop of a nation turning inward on itself, this is the tale of a life once filled with riches becoming rootless, where friends were left behind and politicians legislated their own people out of existence--and to their deaths--culminating in what we now know as the Holocaust.