The converts

1525 The Converts, by Tereska Torres (read 4 July 1979) The author is the daughter of Marek Szivar, a Polish Jewish artist who became a Catholic but did not tell his Polish Jewish parents. He lived in Paris, and the author went home to Poland each summer. The book is a sensitive and beautiful autobiography covering the period up till the late 1940's. When the relatives in Poland found out Marek was a Catholic, they would have no more to do with him, so they did not visit again, and Tereska went to a convent school. She tells of their flight from France, and her joining the Free French Army, her marriage to Georges Torres, stepson of Leon Blum, and his death Oct 8, 1944. Very sad story at times--I enjoyed the reading very much. ( )