Bittersweet
First love, guilt, jealousy
Sidebar: Braux family
Hard times and illness
Sidebar: Faucheur family
Grandmother Faucheur's magic basket
Sidebar: The Ququ cousins
Sidebar: Germaine and Lucien
La fete au village
First communion
The Depression
Sidebar: Braux family neighbors, Blvd. Foch locality
Sidebar: Others in Nancy
War clouds gather
Tocsin
Gasmasks
Food coupons
First bombing
Grandmother Braux
Occupation
Sidebar: Occupied zone
Sidebar: The Vichy government
Father is alive!
The black market
The underground
1942-1943
The blackout
My first job
Sidebar: Cecile and Nicole's work associates
Paulette and Walty
Style and clothing
De Gaulle and the Americans
D-Day, June 6, 1944
Liberation
September 18
Sidebar: Reminiscences of Guy Calba
War brides
1945
Friday, June 15, 1945
Sidebar: Liberation commemorative article in the L'Est republicain, September 9, 1994.