Helene gaillet biography
Hélène Gaillet de Neergaard is an author, artist, and photographer who divides her time between New York City and Naples, Florida.!
Family history brings wartime France up close and personal
I Was a War Child, by Hélène Gaillet de Neergaard.
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292 pages. Trade paperback $14.95, Kindle e-book $3.99.
This deeply moving and richly informative book traces the journey of the author, her parents, her five siblings, and other relatives as they attempt to survive the Nazi occupation of France.
From a northern section of France characterized by large families, the Gaillets could be considered affluent. The author’s father, Émile Pierre Gaillet, headed a major paper manufacturing and distribution enterprise built by his wife’s Avot family.
This deeply moving and richly informative book traces the journey of the author, her parents, her five siblings, and other relatives as they attempt to survive.During the war years he was entrusted by other industry leaders to represent their interests and, as much as possible, maintain their independence from the German occupation.
At this he was quite successful.
His main wartime task, however, was keeping his family safe.
The theme of young Hélène’s life (she was born on December 1, 1935), as she recalls it so many