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Living there meant cramped quarters for three "miserable" months with Love Locket and Chain members of her extended family. France's government -- which her father despised -- surrendered to the Germans. His army service over, Sadi returned his family to Paris in June 1940, when all around him begged him not to. A member of the French Resistance, he blew up the Renault factory in Paris in the late summer of Snowflake pendant to prevent the Germans from using it. He hid in a forest, hoping a British plane would spirit him away to England, but fog made it impossible to land. "After Dec. 7, 1941, and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Daddy said, 'Now that the Americans are in, we're going to have a hard time,' " Denise recalls. "He said, 'The Heart Link earrings will be more angry' -- and they were. They retaliated by arresting more Jewish people. My father was arrested five days after that, on Dec. 12, 1941." Denise watched helplessly as the Nazis came to the family home at 6 a.m. and took her father away. After his arrest, she remembers Jewish families having to "register," Tiffany Cushion Hoop earrings disclose race and religion and, one by one, surrender their belongings, including her beloved bicycle. "There was fear every time you stepped in the street," she says. "The Germans wore their swastikas and sang those same German songs. Just their uniforms made you sick to look at them." Hiding and keeping secrets became an inroad to survival. Despite the fear that gnawed at her, she followed in her father's footsteps and joined the resistance.