woman called Liza at a synagogue in Djerba, an island off the coast of Tunisia. He was amazed to discover, after assuming she was a beggar and offering her money, that she knew the names of his mother and grandmother. Death Joffo died on 6 December 2018 at a hospital in Saint-Laurent-du-Var, Alpes-Maritimes from a short-illness at the age of 87. Other media On 10 December 1975, Un sac de billes premiered in France as a motion picture. The film was also released internationally under the title A Bag of Marbles. A second film of Un Sac de Billes was released in 2017. During filming in Nice, the hanging of a Nazi flag on the Palais des Rois Sardes caused a frenzy between the local population and the crew. References External links Books by Joseph Joffo 1931 births 2018 deaths Writers from Paris French memoirists 20th-century French novelists 21st-century French novelists Winners of the Prix Broquette-Gonin (literature) French male novelists 20th-century French male writers 21st-century French male writers French male non-fiction writers French people of Jewish descent Children in the Holocaust