Advertisement Reading is my passion. I can’t imagine not having access to books, yet this is exactly what happened to Jewish readers in France during World War II. During the Nazi Occupation, Jewish people were stripped of their rights. They could no longer work in many professions. They did not have the right to enter parks or libraries. They were in tremendous danger: a quarter of France’s Jewish population was killed. Yet librarians at the time reached out to Jewish readers to ensure they remained part of the community. My novel, The Paris Library, tells the true tale of the international team of librarians who defied the Nazis in order to hand-deliver books to Jewish readers.