Ginette Kolinka

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Ginette Kolinka (born Cherkasky ; born February 4, 1925 in Paris ) is a French survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and a contemporary witness of the Holocaust .

biography

Kolinka is a Jewish atheist of Ukrainian and Romanian descent. She spent her childhood in Aubervilliers with her parents, her five sisters and her brother.

Her uncle and brother-in-law were arrested in 1941 during World War II . In July 1942 Kolinka's family fled to Avignon in the unoccupied zone of France ( Zone libre ), as they feared arrest.

On March 13, 1944, Ginette Kolinka and her father Léon Cherkasky, her twelve-year-old brother Gilbert Cherkasky and her nephew were arrested after they had been denounced . The family was first detained in Avignon Detention Center, then in Les Baumettes and in the Drancy assembly camp . One month later she was taken to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in convoy No. 71 . Shortly after the train arrived, Kolinka's father and brother were gassed; Konlinka was sent to the women's camp. Simone Veil , Marceline Loridan-Ivens , Léa Feldblum , Paul Haguenauer and Anne-Lise Stern were also in convoy no.71.

From October 1944 to April 1945 Konlinka was imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt concentration camps. In Theresienstadt she worked in a factory and fell ill with typhus . She was scheduled to change camp in May 1945, but was liberated and repatriated to Lyon before traveling to Paris on June 6, 1945 to meet her relatives who had survived.

For forty years, Ginette Kolinka and her husband ran a knitwear and knitwear shop in the Aubervilliers market. Kolinka did not talk about the Holocaust for a long time, because she “didn't like to disturb” people. In the early 2000s - she was now a widow - she joined an association of former deportees . Since then she has been reporting to French schoolchildren and students about her experiences during the Holocaust.

On January 27, 2016, Kolinka was appointed Komtur des Ordre des Palmes Académiques by Minister of Education Najat Vallaud-Belkacem . She also performed publicly in early 2020.

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  1. ↑ Mende: rencontre avec émouvante Ginette Kolinka, rescapée d'Auschwitz. France 3 Régions , April 2, 2016, accessed January 14, 2017 (French).
  2. ↑ a b Ginette Kolinka: Je me faisais la plus petite possible, tellement j'avais peur . In: francetvinfo.fr . January 29, 2015, accessed on January 14, 2017 (français).
  3. ↑ Une soirée avec Ginette Kolinka. In: La Dépêche du Midi . May 13, 2015, accessed on August 28, 2019 (French).
  4. ↑ Ginette Kolinka, née Cherkasky. In: cercleshoah.org. June 23, 2012, accessed January 14, 2017 (French).
  5. ^ A b Serge Klarsfeld : Le Mémorial de la déportation des Juifs de France . Ed .: Fils et filles de déportés juifs de France . 2012 (French).
  6. ↑ a b Décoration de Ginette Kolinka, une femme exceptionnelle - Discours de Najat Vallaud-Belkacem. In: najat-vallaud-belkacem.com. January 28, 2016, accessed January 14, 2017 (French).
  7. ↑ a b Rescapée d'Auschwitz. Grande leçon d'histoire. In: Le Télégramme . December 20, 2017, accessed January 21, 2018 (French).
  8. ↑ Ginette Kolinka presentation. In: rescapesdelashoah.org. Retrieved January 14, 2017 (French).
  9. ↑ Philippe Ridet: Un apéro avec Ginette Kolinka: Pour me voir avec la larme aux yeux, il faut beaucoup. In: Le Monde . May 31, 2019, accessed August 28, 2019 (French).
  10. ↑ spiegel.de January 26, 2020: What was and what should never happen again
personal data
SURNAME Kolinka, Ginette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cherkasky, Ginette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French survivor and contemporary witness of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris