Children of Pithiviers Author:Sheila Kohler The children's concentration camp at Pithiviers witnessed some of the most shameful episodes in the chronicles of occupied France. In 1959, during the course of a summer affair with a haughty French aristocrat, eighteen year-old Dierdre discovers the diary of two Jewish girls kept hidden from the Nazis in his chateau. As love descends into cruel... more »ty, the frank depiction of Dierdre's sexual awakening mingles warily, and finally horribly, with the discovery of evil.« less