Autobiografie jednoho pařížského domu

In the 10th arrondissement of Paris, on rue Saint-Maur, there is a tenement house number 209, where families of craftsmen and workers, immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe, have lived since the 1850s. Generations have grown up here, love and friendships have been forged and daily life has been regularly interrupted by the disasters and violence of the 20th century. In the 1940s, a number of Jewish families, including nine children, were deported here, and their fates are at the center of the author's magnificent prose testimony to the memory of places and the invisible threads that connect the living and the dead.

Ruth Zylberman's narrative brings to life the stories of disappeared and returnees, children and adults, collaborators and resisters, girls in love and women with bad reputations, specific people of different nationalities whose lives were brought together by a single Parisian address.