L'Oreal Took My Home

The Secrets of a Theft

By Monica Waitzfelder

# of pages: 167

In the novel L'Oreal Took My Home by Monica Waitzfelder is about the Rosenfelder family. During World War II, as Jewish homes were being seized one after another, the Rosenfelder family was forced to flee the nation. They had to leave behind their jobs, their possessions, and their home. After the war ended, the family discovered that they were unable to return to what had rightfully been their property. Cosmetics giant L'Oreal had taken over the building and made it their head office. Refusing to recognize the building's original owners, the corporation was brought to court by the Rosenfelder's young daughter, Monica, an ordeal that she chronicles in this honest, personal tale of one family's ongoing struggle to regain what it lost during the war.