Frida Scheps Weinstein

Frida Scheps Weinstein (born October 1936) is a French author. Her book A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

Biography

Scheps Weinstein was born in 1936 to immigrant Jewish-Russian parents in Paris, but was teased for looking German.[1] By the age of six, she was sent away to live in the care of the Red Cross at the Château de Beaujeu, a convent school.[2] As she grew up safe from The Holocaust, Scheps Weinstein began to forget her Jewish background and asked to become baptized as a Catholic, despite her mother's wishes.[3] Upon the conclusion of the war, she reconciled with her father in Jerusalem, where she received her education and enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces.[4]

Once Scheps Weinstein completed her army service in 1960, she moved to the United States and worked for Agence France-Presse.[4] While in America, she published a memoir of her memories from The Holocaust in a book titled A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[5]

References
  1. Schwertfeger, Ruth (2012). In Transit: Narratives of German Jews in Exile, Flight, and Internment During "The Dark Years" of France. Frank & Timme GmbH. pp. 167–168. ISBN 9783865963840. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  2. Burnly, Judith (September 8, 1985). "MEMOIRS OF A WOULD-BE CATHOLIC GIRLHOOD". New York Times. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  3. "Frida Scheps". museumoftolerance.com. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  4. Patterson, David; Berger, Anne L.; Sarita (2002). Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 209–210. ISBN 9781573562577. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  5. "Finalist: A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1942-1945, by Frida Scheps Weinstein". pulitzer.org. Retrieved February 11, 2020.


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