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French writer

Joseph Joffo (2 April 1931 – 6 December 2018) was a French author. A noted autobiographer, Joffo was perhaps best known for his memoir Un sac de billes (A Bag of Marbles), which has been translated into eighteen languages.^[1] Joseph Joffo was married to Brigitte Joffo and had 3 children, Alexandra, Boris, and Franck

Early life

Joffo was born in Paris in the 18th arrondissement.^[2] He left school at 14 with a certificat d'études (a former school leaving certificate, taken at the end of primary education) in his pocket and joined his brothers in the family's barber shop.

Career

A Bag of Marbles

Main article: A Bag of Marbles

His memoir Un sac de billes (A Bag of Marbles), written as a novel, tells the story of Joffo as a young Jewish boy during the Holocaust.^[1] When Joffo was ten, his father gave him and his brother five thousand francs each and instructions to flee Nazi-occupied Paris by foot Joseph joffo hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy HARU