Joseph Joffo
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Joseph Joffo (1931) is a French author. He is a prolific author of fiction and nonfiction but perhaps best known in France and abroad for his memoirs "Un Sac de Billes" (A Bag of Marbles)which has been translated into eighteen languages. The memoirs, written in a novel fashion, tell the account of Joffo as a young boy during the Holocaust. When Joseph Joffo was ten years old, his father gave him and his brother 50,000 francs and instructions to flee Nazi-occupied Paris and, somehow, get to Marseille in the Free Zone, where they'd be safe. The book "A Bag of Marbles" tells of this journey.
From the age of 10 until 12 him and his two year older brother, Jacob, traveled all around France by themselves. They were traveling to excape from the grasp of the Hitler and his S.S. men and Nazis. He went to various kids camps, houses, hotels and all of this when he was younger than a teen.
He made it out alive with his brother two years later. His two even older brothers, 18 and 22 at the time were fine as well. He reunited with them after the war was over and they took him and Jacob home where their mother who also made it out. Their father was taken to a concentration camp and was killed in a gas chamber in Aushwitz.
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