Mireille Marokvia (1908 – 19 October 2008) was a French writer best known for her two books about her ordeals during World War II in Nazi Germany. Biography She was born in a village near Chartres, France, in December 1908. Her first English publication was a children's book released in 1959. She died on 19 October 2008 in Las Cruces in the United States at the age of 99. References 1908 births 2008 deaths French women writers 20th-century French women French women memoirists