Irène Némirovsky(1903-1942)
- Writer
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.
