Article: A Personal Story of D-Day Liberation

This time, the early morning footsteps on the stairs below could be coming for her, a 17-year-old Jew hiding from the Holocaust in a Place Pigalle hotel in Paris.

Or it could be, as so often before, the sound of the Germans coming for the deserters hiding among the prostitutes who occupied the hotel's lower floors.

Instead, it was someone with the news: "They have landed."

D-Day still has great personal meaning for Michelle, now a south suburban resident. Before she returned last week to Europe to commemorate that day and the liberation of Paris, she agreed to let me tell her story but not use her real name. It's still too personal.

Earlier in the war, they came one day to take her ...

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