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Irène Némirovsky - New Biography and Short Stories - NYTimes.com

More details have come out about Irene Nemirovsky's life from correspondences and unearthed writings, to suggest she foolishly thought herself worlds apart from a "shtetl Jew," an assertion to which Petain and his henchmen did not take favorably in deporting her to Auschwitz, unfortunately.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/books/26nemirovsky.html