Book on French Holocaust kids was labor of love. (publishing company volunteers put together 'French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial' because of the importance of the work; New York University Press publishes the book)(Brief Article)

A BOOK THAT tries to keep alive the memory of thousands of French children who died in Nazi death camps has just been published by New York University Press--the result of long volunteer labors by a number of New York publishing people who reit the huge 2000-page document, with its more than 2500 pictures, was too important not to appear, despite the difficulties.

It began two years ago when journalist Peter Hellman showed Howard Epstein, former president of Facts on File, the French edition of the book, which was compiled by Serge Klarsfeld, the preeminent French Nazi hunter. "As I held the book, I thought: 'We're going to publish this and get it into as many schools …