Newsday: A clock that once told time in Holocaust-era France is now a tale of history in Glen Cove

The Art Deco mahogany clock that chimed in Rosette Priever Gerbosi’s dining room when she was a girl in 1930s Paris was a symbol of middle-class success. When she went into hiding after the Nazis invaded France in 1940, so too did the clock.

"My mother was so proud of that room," Gerbosi, 88, said Wednesday from her home in Naples, Florida. "That was her pride and joy, and especially that clock."

Gerbosi and her brother, Bernard, survived the war and immigrated to the United States — and so did the clock.