Memoirs of a Polish Jewish woman, born in 1915 in Minsk Mazowiecki, the eldest child of a family of nine children. In 1931 she emigrated alone to Paris, married, and helped two of her sisters to emigrate as well. When the war began, Drach and her husband, concealing their identity, found work in a sewing atelier which manufactured clothing for the German army. In August 1942 they escaped a raid and deportation; in March 1943 Drach was arrested and transported to Drancy, but released several days later due to the intervention of her employer. After a second arrest, she jumped from a window on the fourth floor, was badly injured and hospitalized for six months. During this time her small daughter lived with a non-Jewish family and her husband was in hiding. After her recovery she worked under a false identity as a domestic servant for a wealthy French family in the countryside. At the end of the war she joined her husband and daughter; her sisters also survived. The members of her family who had stayed in Poland perished in the Holocaust.
