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RV10320-6 - Irène Nemirovsky (1903-1942), french woman of letters of Russian origin. Photograph taken in 1938.
Born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1903 the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a best selling novelist. Prevented from publishing when Germany invaded France in 1940. In July 1942 she was arrested and interned in Pithiviers concentration camp and from there, she was taken to Auschwitz where she died in August 1942. Posthumous books published 2007 - Suite Francaise and Fire in the Blood.
Roger-Viollet / Topfoto
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