Memoirs of Cohn, a Jew born in 1920 in Metz as Marthe Hoffnung. As a child, Cohn was confronted with the antisemitism of the local population. In September 1939 the family moved to Poitiers, where they experienced the German occupation and the Nazi anti-Jewish measures. Several of Cohn's seven siblings joined the resistance. One sister, Stéphanie, was arrested in summer 1942, interned in various camps, and murdered in Auschwitz. Cohn arranged for most of her family to escape to the south of France, with the help of her fiancé, Jacques Delaunay, who was executed in 1943 for his resistance activities. Cohn moved to Paris to live with one of her sisters. After the liberation she joined the French army and, being fluent in German, worked for intelligence, interrogating German POWs. In early 1945 she entered Germany to gather vital information for the advancing French army, for which she was awarded various medals. In 1956 she emigrated to the U.S.