Very little is known about Françoise Frenkel's life. She was born
in Poland in 1889, and in 1921 set up the first French-language
bookshop in Berlin with her husband. In 1939, she returned to
Paris, and after the German invasion the following year fled to
occupied Vichy. After several years in hiding, she made a desperate
attempt to cross the border to Switzerland. Frenkel died in Nice in
1975. Her memoir, originally published in Geneva in 1945, was
rediscovered in a flea market in 2010, republished in the original
French and is now being translated and published in numerous
languages for the first time.
Stephanie Smee is a translator of French adult and children's books
into English. Her other languages include German, Italian and
Swedish.
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