Dora brother

Some years ago, Modiano came across the following advertisement in an old newspaper, the "Paris Soir" of December 31, 1941: "Wanted: a young girl, Dora Bruder, 15 years old, oval face, gray-brown eyes.... Please send any information to Monsieur and Madame Bruder, 41 Boulevard Ornano, Paris." Since that day, the fate of the Jewish girl Dora in Paris under the German occupation never left him, and he began to reconstruct her story. Who was Dora Bruder? How did she end up in a Catholic girls' boarding school? Why had she run away from there? How had she managed on her own during her escape, and in what way had she finally been arrested and deported to Drancy in 1942? For almost ten years, Modiano has been researching the story of Dora Bruder, searching registry offices, police prefectures, archives and antiquarian bookshops, and d.