The French writer André Schwartz-Barth (1928–2006), having lost all his relatives in Nazi extermination camps, fought for the liberation of France from the age of fifteen, first in partisan detachments, and then in the army of General de Gaulle. His first novel about the difficult fate of Jews in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust (“The Last Righteous Man”) was awarded the Goncourt Prize in 1959. Published posthumously, Schwarz-Barth's last book, Morning Star, which tells the story of a boy from a Polish village who lived through the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz, picks up and completes the theme of the fate of a people who suffered enormous sacrifices during the Second World War.