It is a cool, crisp day in the seventh arrondissement of Paris. It is June, 1942. In a small schoolyard a few blocks from the Champs-Élysées, boys and girls run and laugh as they play, their happy shrieks carrying to the indoors of the school, where teachers smile and shake their heads. The air in the schoolyard is thick with the innocence of these children, while just on the next block the sobs and pleas of a Jewish woman can be heard as she is marched out of her home by a German officer and taunted by neighbors. The Germans have occupied Paris for two years now, and life has changed drastically, now including rations, shortages, and deportations. But inside the low stone walls of this schoolyard, it is safe. These children are happy, at least for the time being. For now, they are safely enclosed in a haven where they can be free from the horrors of the second World War that surrounds them.
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Historical Fictionhistorical fiction about three girls living in germany-occupied france during world war two.
