"But what has happened? I was a kid, me, with beads, floats (...) lessons to learn (...) Sunday dad took us to see the nags Longchamp and take the air, the week in class and that is all, and all of a sudden you stick me a few square centimeters of fabric and I become Jewish. " Joseph decade. Suddenly he just learned that he is a Jew, and what that means in occupied Paris in 1941. At school, his older brother Maurice and him are beaten up by their comrades who accuse them of being responsible for the war. As for his teacher, he has probably been instructed to not take care of Jewish students, since it ignores Joseph now. Who does not understand what is happening. "It left me this morning, more than the blows, more than indifference of the great is the feeling of powerlessness to understand. I had the same color as the others, the same head, I had heard of different religions and I was taught in school that people fought for it once, but I did not religion (...) " Very quickly, his father realized he must flee to the free zone. He told Joseph what it means to be Jewish: "Once, he said, we lived a country, one has been expelled so we left everywhere and there are times, like that in which we are, where it continues. It's the hunt that is reopened, then it must start and hide, waiting for the hunter fatigue. " Paradoxically, when Joseph came to learn that he is Jewish, his father forbade him to admit it to anyone. After this last recommendation, the brothers leave their parents, and at the same time the world of childhood, for France a prey to raids where survival often held by a thread. The journey of Joseph and his brother Maurice was panting. Resourceful and intuitive, the perilous adventures of two young brothers do not fail to arouse admiration and tenderness. Upon release, when revenge sounds for many, Joseph demonstrated magnanimity. After being seasoned in contact with the brown plague, it can be credited to its modest scale, have helped heal the wounds of his country. Remarkable for a 13 year old child, his magnanimity is to become a hunter hunted to be defended by Joseph, which he accused of being the race unworthy of living.