A World War II novel hidden from the Nazis is being published in English. After her mother, Irene Nemirovsky, was arrested in 1942 and taken to a concentration camp, Denise Epstein, then 13, carried her mother’s novel in a suitcase as she hid from the Germans in basements and schools, Reuters reported.
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