Language:
French
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah
Angaben zur Quelle:
161 (1997) 185-216
Keywords:
Raymonde family
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Traces the fate of one Jewish family in France during the war, based on material in the CDJC archives, especially the testimony of Raymonde, the oldest daughter. The N. family emigrated from Poland in 1929 and settled in a small town, Montargis, 100 km from Paris. Mendel and Genia N. had four daughters. In 1941 Mendel's shop was Aryanized. Between March 1942-September 1944 he was interned in various labor camps in southern France. Genia was arrested in July 1942 and deported to Auschwitz, where she was murdered. The children were given to mixed Christian-Jewish families; later on, three of the daughters (except the youngest, a baby) were arrested and interned in Beaune-la-Rolande. In December 1942 they were moved to an orphanage run by UGIF. In August 1943 the sisters (aged 8, 11, and 14) escaped in order to join their father in Sereilhac. Helped by many people, they survived the war in a Catholic pension in southern France. After the war they returned to Montargis. Presents this story as typical of the Jews' fate during the war, but at the same time special because of the unusual escape of the children from the UGIF orphanage.
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