“The Postcard” has the thrills of a crime novel, as author Anne Berest enlists the help of her chain-smoking mother, a private detective, a graphologist and even her great-grandparents’ former neig…
French author Anne Berest didn’t know much about the Jewish side of her family apart from the fact that her grandmother had lost her parents and siblings to the Holocaust.On the front: a photo of the Opéra Garnier. On the back: the names Ephraïm, Emma, Noémie and Jacques — Berest’s four family members killed in Auschwitz.
“For us French people, that’s a very strong symbol,” she says, adding that a recent surge in antisemitism and xenophobia in Europe added a layer of menace to the card.Author Anne Berest’s mother attempted to sketch out a family tree.
Ephraïm told Myriam to run and hide in the grass and she stayed there all night, bicycling back to Paris at dawn. “This is actually part of the book that my mother didn’t didn’t really want me to write,” Berest says. That wasn’t uncommon, particularly for Jews who had survived the war in France, because “even after the war, your neighbors were people who had denounced members of your family and they were still there in the building,” Berest says.
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