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Frida Scheps Weinstein
French author (born )
Frida Scheps Weinstein (born November ) is a French author.
Biography of frida scheps
Her book A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
Biography
Scheps Weinstein was born in to immigrant Jewish-Russian parents in Paris, but was teased for looking German.[1] By the age of six, she was sent away to live in the care of the Red Cross at the Château de Beaujeu, a convent school.[2] As she grew up safe from The Holocaust, Scheps Weinstein began to forget her Jewish background and asked to become baptized as a Catholic.
That never happened as her mother objected. .[3] Upon the conclusion of the war, she reconciled with her father in Jerusalem, where she received her education and enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces.[4]
Once Scheps Weinstein completed her army service in , she moved to the United States and worked for Agen