Your Name Is Renée: Ruth Kapp Hartz's Story as a Hidden Child in Nazi-Occupied France

by Stacy Cretzmeyer

Hardcover, 1999

Status

Available

Call number

940.53 CRE

Publication

Oxford University Press (1999), Edition: 2nd Printing, 240 pages

Description

In Nazi-occupied France in 1941, four-year-old Ruth Kapp learns that it is dangerous to use her own name. "Remember," her older cousin Jeannette warns her, "your name is Renee and you are French!"A deeply personal book, this true story recounts the chilling experiences of a young Jewish girl during the Holocaust. The Kapp family flees one home after another, helped by simple, ordinary people from the French countryside who risk their lives to protect them. Eventually the family is forced toseparate, and young Ruth survives the war in an orphanage where she is not allowed to see or even mention her parents. Without the trappings of lofty language or the faceless perspective of history, this first-person account poignantly recreates the terror of war seen through the eyes of an innocentchild. Your Name Is Renee is a tale of suffering and redemption, fear and hope, which is bound to stir even the most hardened heart.… (more)

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4544

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User reviews

LibraryThing member ChelseaB-ley
This is another great book. Like, Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl, this book is a great way to learn about the Holocaust. It is about a little Jewish girl having to hide in different villages with her family. She has to change her name, her religion, and gets sent to a Catholic orphanage. She
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is scared and confused, and thinks her parents are dead.
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LibraryThing member Book_Shelter
A story that gives a clear view from a child's stand point. Also a great telling of how heroic the catholic church was in many cases, and what lengths the Nuns went to, to save children.
LibraryThing member SilversReviews
Another story of the atrocities of WWII and the Jewish people.

Ruth wasn't allowed to be called by her real name, but had to go by the name Renee so she wouldn't be found out.

She and her family had to keep moving around and she had to spend time away from her family to keep safe.

Thank goodness for
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the people who were able to help and protect families.
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LibraryThing member Sergey46
The diary your name is Renee encompasses a little girl during worl war two. In the beginnin ruth struggles with having to pretetnd to be french.
This book tells of the hardships a young girl name ruth must pretend to be french to survive the war. by the end ruth has learned that life is unfair but
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we musnt give up.
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ISBN

0195132599 / 9780195132595
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