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EVENT POSTPONED: Le Gardien de nos frères (in French and English)

bois-book-lowresPlease note that the 11/29 event with author Ariane Bois has been postponed. The author is unable to travel to New York at this time. We hope to reschedule the event in 2017.

French author and journalist Ariane Bois will present her fourth novel, Le Gardien de nos frères (Belfond, 2016), and discuss its historical context with Department of History graduate student Alexandra Steinlight.

The novel illuminates a little-known episode, the experience of les dépisteurs, the trackers sent to find Jewish children hidden during World War II whose parents had not survived. At the end of the war, Simon, a resistance fighter from a well-to-do Parisian Jewish family, and Lena, the daughter of Polish shopkeepers from the ghetto of Warsaw, sign up as trackers. These two young heroes will meet countless difficulties. The story of a quest as well as a love story, the book has received several prizes, including the Prix Wizo.

ARIANE BOIS
Journalist, novelist; author of Le Gardien de nos frères; Sans oublier; Le Monde d’Hannah

Respondent:
ALEXANDRA STEINLIGHT
Department of History, NYU

In French and English. Free and open to the public.











When: Tue., Nov. 29, 2016 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: La Maison Française NYU
16 Washington Mews
212-998-8750
Price: Free
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bois-book-lowresPlease note that the 11/29 event with author Ariane Bois has been postponed. The author is unable to travel to New York at this time. We hope to reschedule the event in 2017.

French author and journalist Ariane Bois will present her fourth novel, Le Gardien de nos frères (Belfond, 2016), and discuss its historical context with Department of History graduate student Alexandra Steinlight.

The novel illuminates a little-known episode, the experience of les dépisteurs, the trackers sent to find Jewish children hidden during World War II whose parents had not survived. At the end of the war, Simon, a resistance fighter from a well-to-do Parisian Jewish family, and Lena, the daughter of Polish shopkeepers from the ghetto of Warsaw, sign up as trackers. These two young heroes will meet countless difficulties. The story of a quest as well as a love story, the book has received several prizes, including the Prix Wizo.

ARIANE BOIS
Journalist, novelist; author of Le Gardien de nos frères; Sans oublier; Le Monde d’Hannah

Respondent:
ALEXANDRA STEINLIGHT
Department of History, NYU

In French and English. Free and open to the public.

Buy tickets/get more info now