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A Bag Of Marbles
(Joseph Joffo)

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This captivating real life story tells the unimaginable experienced by Jojo, 10 years old, and his brother Maurice, 12, the youngest of seven children, who fled their Parisian home leaving their family and childhood behind.

Children of parents who scarcely escaped the clutches of Russian pogroms, who begrudgingly gave them food, money and instructions to reach their older brothers in the unoccupied zone, the young brothers set off on a voyage that would alter their perceptions of life and humanity forever.

To elude the horrors of the Nazi regime, the brave chaps played on strangers? sympathies, told untruths, were cold, hungry, thirsty and even parted ways but never ever ever betrayed each other in their fight for life.

The Vichy Regime was no match for these two heroes who infiltrated a Petainist youth camp where they were safe only to be captured and beaten as they unwittingly entered a trap devised by SS officers to snag the ?culprits? behind false papers? for Jews. Ferdinand offered them a ride to Nice, told them to wait in the car and intended to escape with the help of the Resistance. Little did they know that Ferdinand was Jewish?Maurice told Jojo, ?wait in the car, I?m going to check what happened to Ferdinand?. Jojo loses patience and also falls into the hands of Nazi soldiers who take them into custody and detain them until they can prove they?ve been baptized and done their communion.

The family of nine disperses into twos in order to stay alive, mother and father, Henri and Albert??What about you and maman?? asks Jojo. Are the others alright? When will we see them again? When will this God forsaken war be over?

All that you can?t fathom happens to these two boys in the prime of their innocence, on the verge of adulthood. Joseph Joffo, hairstylist like his father and older brothers, shares his heartrending tale with us and changes our lives.



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