Someday You Will Understand

by Nina Wolff Feld

  24. New York Times, May 25, 1940.

  25. A prestataire is a civilian auxilliary recruited for noncombatant defense work, according to Vicki Caron in Uneasy Asylum: France and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1933–1942 (Stanford University Press, 1999).

  26. Mel Brooks was, in fact, a customer at Bon Marché. My mother, who often worked at our uptown store on the Upper East Side in New York, waited on him and his wife, Anne Bancroft.