[2] During the occupation of France, she was involved in the Jewish resistance organization Armée Juive (AJ) by providing funding and also working as a liaison agent.
[5] The English title references the ways Mesnil-Amar and her daughter would have to assume fake names with forged papers during the war.
Moorehead writes of Mesnil-Amar, "Looking back over her life, she felt a mixture of regret and contempt for the way that the Jewish families she had grown up among had believed so passionately in their own assimilation, had been so willing to adopt the customs and ape the behaviour of the Catholic and Protestant French, and had thus failed to see how profound the differences were between them, 'by reason of suffering and blood'.
[7] André founded the Central Service for Jewish Deportees after the war, and Mesnil-Amar wrote articles for and edited their publication.
She also wrote for the Journal of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, Nouveaux Cahiers, and delivered lectures on Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust.