Irène Némirovsky

Born in 1903, into a Ukrainian Jewish family, she embarked on a life-altering journey as a young woman by emigrating to the City of Light, Paris. Her writing career flourished between 1929 and 1937, with the publication of nine books, one of which, "David Golder", was adapted into a movie in 1930. As her literary reputation grew in France, she gained widespread recognition, yet her quest for French citizenship remained unfulfilled. In 1939, she underwent a significant transformation by converting to Catholicism, an act that would later prove futile in the face of rising anti-Semitism. When the Nazis invaded France, she was arrested in 1942, branded as a "stateless person of Jewish descent", and subsequently deported to the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp, where she tragically lost her life, alongside her husband.