6/5/2023 0 Comments Hidden by Loïc Dauvillier![]() ![]() Dauvillier doesn't shy away from the brutal truth in this portrayal of the Holocaust. Neighbors, the Pericards, rescue Dounia and adopt her while they try to locate her mother and father, who have been transferred to a concentration camp. Eventually, the little girl is hidden under a panel in her family's wardrobe as police vandalize her home and arrest her parents. Heartbreaking incidents, such as being ostracized by a teacher and former friends or having to don a yellow a star, are told from a child's perspective, filled with confusion and innocence. Dounia recounts her experience as a Jewish child in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1942. ![]() span style = 'font-weight:bold'>Gr 3–6-Elsa and her grandmother Dounia can't fall asleep one night, and the little girl begs the older woman to share the reason for her sadness. ![]()
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