When a neighbor tells a sensitive French youngster in 1953 that his family is Jewish, the boy is horrified. His "Aryan"-appearing parents reared him as a Catholic, but he progressively peels back the layers of a repressed family history that led to a traumatic childhood. His athletic father worked hard to eradicate the traditional Jewish traits he saw in his son and to protect the family's numerous secrets, as many of his relatives had served in World War II and had since been deported to concentration camps and other forms of labor and death camps by the Nazis.
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When a neighbor tells a sensitive French youngster in 1953 that his family is Jewish, the boy is horrified. His "Aryan"-appearing parents reared him as a Catholic, but he progressively peels back the layers of a repressed family history that led to a traumatic childhood. His athletic father worked hard to eradicate the traditional Jewish traits he saw in his son and to protect the family's numerous secrets, as many of his relatives had served in World War II and had since been deported to concentration camps and other forms of labor and death camps by the Nazis.
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