The second world war classic of life under Nazi occupation. NAcmirovsky was sent to Auschwitz in 1942. In 1941, IrA"ne sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. NAcmirovsky's death in Auschwitz in 1942 prevented her from seeing the day, sixty-five years later, that the existing two sections of her planned novel sequence, Suite FranA