Francine christophe biography

There are so many aspects of Francine and her mother’s sto­ry that inspire me, and that I hope will inspire oth­ers.

We are com­ing to a time when the com­mu­ni­ty of Holo­caust sur­vivors who are able to per­son­al­ly share their sto­ries is grow­ing small­er and small­er. It will not be long before the first-hand wit­ness­es of this his­to­ry are gone.

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Now, more than ever, we need to find and pre­serve these impor­tant sto­ries so we can pass them on to the next generation. 

This is also a sto­ry about kind­ness dur­ing dev­as­tat­ing and des­per­ate times.

I think that any sto­ry that can con­vey a mes­sage of kind­ness in the midst of so much suf­fer­ing and anguish is an impor­tant one to write. Kids need these hope­ful mes­sages as they strug­gle to make sense of Holo­caust his­to­ry and, in turn, as they deter­mine how they want to act in the world today and in t