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Pp. 9-96, "Souvenirs de mon enfance durant la deuxieme guerre mondiale (1938-1945)", contain the memoirs of Eva Gloria Rapaport Edmands (b. 1930). As a child she emigrated with her parents from Vienna to Paris. In 1939 her father was held as an enemy alien, exonerated, and drafted into the French army in 1940. The family was reunited in Calvisson (Provence) where Eva and her mother settled near the army camp. When her father was called up to fight in Germany, the family escaped to Annecy and attempted, unsuccessfully, to cross the Swiss border. Claudius Longeray, a priest in the nearby village of Saint-Martin-Bellevue, agreed to hide them until the liberation. He was honored posthumously by Yad Vashem, in 1990, as a Righteous Gentile. The rest of the book contains a biography of Longeray by C. Chatelain, and testimonies by people who knew him.