Je crois au matin - Charles Palant
2009
PALANT
Charles Palant was born in Paris in 1922 in the working-class district of Belleville, home of many Jewish immigrant families like his own. Early in life, he gave voice to his convictions and his commitment to the service of others. At Lyon in August 1943, Charles Palant was arrested by the Gestapo together with his mother and sister. Interned at Fort Montluc, they were deported in October to Auschwitz.
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Seule à quatorze ans à Ravensbrück et Bergen-Belsen - Marie Vaislic
2015
VAISLIC
Marie Rafalovitch was 14 years old gwhen her world came crashing down on July 24, 1944, in Toulouse. Denounced by a neighbor, she was arrested alone and deported to Germany to the women’s camp of Ravensbrück. Too young for forced labor, she suffered from hunger and abuse, and discovered with horror the terrifying fate awaiting the camp prisoners. (Only available in French)
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La Jeune Fille aux yeux bleus - Isabelle Choko
2014
CHOKO
In 1940, like all the Jews in Lodz, lzabela and her family were forced to move to the ghetto set up by the Nazis. Unable to leave, they suffered from hunger and illness; Izabela’s father did not survive. The young girl, just 11 years old, and her mother managed to escape the roundups, until the ghetto was eradicated in August 1944. (Only available in French)
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Sortie de silence. Un Juif polonais dans la spirale de mort nazie - Jacob Alsztejn
2014
ALSZTEJN
Jacob Alsztejn was arrested in Paris on July 24, 1942 for fighting back during an identity check. Carrying forged ID, he was not identified as a Jew. At his trial, Jacob requested the harshest prison sentence rather than the Gestapo. Yet he was handed over to it once he had served his sentence, and interned in the Jewish camp of Drancy.
Je suis né le 8 mai 1945 - Isidore Rosenbaum
2013
ROSENBAUM
Isidore Rosenbaum was born in Paris into a family of very modest Polish immigrants. He was denied the love of his mother, who beat him, and ran away from home very young and repeatedly. As a delinquent, he was imprisoned before being subjected to the discipline and violence of a penal colony for minors.
J’ai sauté du train. Fragments - Odette Spingarn
2012
SPINGARN
Arrested with her parents March 31, 1944 in a village of the southwest department of Corrèze, Odette Spingam was taken to the barracks of Périgueux, then the transit camp of Drancy, before being deported to the extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where her mother perished.
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La survie d’un Juif de Radom pendant la Shoah - Szyja Opatowski
2012
OPATOWSKI
Szyja Opatowski, nicknamed Samy, was 17 when the German troops invaded Poland in September 1939. For this young Jew, a long fight for survival began, a struggle at every moment to escape extermination. From April 1940, Samy was deported to Belzec, then a labour camp at the frontier of the Soviet Union. There, his analytical skills, his resourcefulness and extraordinary instinct enabled him to get out, without compromise.
Je revois... Un enfant juif polonais dans la tourmente nazie - Henri Rozen-Rechels
2012
ROZEN-RECHELS
Henri, born in Demblin in 1933, witnessed the Nazi invasion, the persecutions, the first deportation of the Jews of his town which included his sister and brother, the Warsaw Ghetto, then the disappearance of his father and the second deportation which he narrowly escaped. But he did not escape the Demblin labour camp, that of Czestochowa to which he was deported with his grandfather, and the concentration camp at Buchenwald.
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Une enfance en otage. "Protégée du maréchal" à Bergen-Belsen - Colette Tcherkawsky
2011
TCHERKAWSKY
Colette Tcherkawsky is one of 77 children of French Jewish prisoners of war who were deported from France to be used by the Nazis as bargaining-counters. If her father was protected by the Geneva conventions, the rest of the family were not spared the anti-Semitic persecutions and Nazi barbarity.
Chassez les papillons noirs - Sarah Lichtsztejn-Montard
2011
LICHTSZTEJN-MONTARD
For over 25 years, Sarah Lichtsztejn-Montard has tirelessly recounted what she endured during the Second World War. How she and her mother escaped from the Vél’ d’Hiv’ after the round-up on July 16th, 1942, and how they were reported in May 1944, thrusting them into the maelstrom of Nazi torment.