- Born
- DiedAugust 17, 1942 · Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland (homicide - died in Nazi death camp)
- She was born in 1903 into a Ukrainian Jewish family, and emigrated to Paris as a young woman. She wrote nine books between 1929 and 1937, one of which was made into a movie ("David Golder", 1930). She became well-known in France, but did not become a French citizen. She converted to Catholicism in 1939, but could not escape the rise of anti-Semitism. After the Nazis invaded France, she was arrested in 1942 as "a stateless person of Jewish descent" and deported to Auschwitz, where she and her husband both died.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpouseMichael Epstein(1926 - ?) (her death, 2 children)
- Posthumous Prix Renaudot 2004 for her novel Suite française
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