Helga Cazas
Helga Cazas , b. Treuherz , (born February 19, 1920 in Berlin-Steglitz , † June 5, 2008 in Paris ), was a French author of German-Jewish descent. She became known for her life story entitled Auf Wiedersehen in Paris , which received widespread media coverage.
Life
Helga Treuherz spent childhood and youth in Berlin with her parents, the merchants Julius and Else Treuherz. She attended the Bismarck-Oberlyzeum, which she left in 1936 due to increasing anti-Semitism . After moving to Wilmersdorf , she attended the local vocational school . In 1938 the family decided to leave Germany, the mother's French passport should help. After Herschel Grynszpan's assassination attempt on the German diplomat Ernst Eduard vom Rath on November 7, 1938 in Paris , only Helga and Else Treuherz were able to escape to France. The father, however, had not received an entry visa, stayed behind in Berlin, was later denounced, deported to Theresienstadt and murdered in Auschwitz in October 1944 .
After the outbreak of the Second World War and the march of German troops in Paris, Helga Treuherz was kidnapped in 1942 after a raid with more than 5,000 Jewish women in the Paris Vélodrome d'Hiver and then taken to Gurs to the Camp de Gurs camp. Her mother helped her to escape with a permit and Treuherz returned to Paris despite the ban.
To survive, she did business with German soldiers and worked in an equipment factory for bunkers. She managed to avoid deportation with the help of German doctors and scientists whom she employed as a laboratory assistant for the German Research Foundation . After the US troops landed in Normandy in 1944 and the war ended, Helga Treuherz was suspected of collaboration and arrested. Only after several attempts and protests did she get an extension of her passport without prior pre- trial detention and was finally rehabilitated in 1947.
In 1948 Helga Treuherz married Honon Cazas (1894–1995) from Lithuania in Paris.
Helga Cazas lived in Paris until her death. Walter Pehle , Hildegard Hamm-Brücher and the Fritz Bauer Institute participated in presentations of their book in Germany .
Works
- Goodbye in Paris. As a Jewish immigrant in France 1936 - 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch 16882 Fischer 2005 ISBN 3-596-16882-1 ISBN 978-3-596-16882-8 .
- Pictures of my youth , series: Jewish miniatures 66. Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2008 ISBN 978-3-938485-68-2 .
watch TV
- Contemporary witness Helga Cazas. In: ZDF-History - Hitler's Blitzkrieg 1940.
Web links
- Literature by and about Helga Cazas in the catalog of the German National Library
- Review by Klaus Harpprecht in Die Zeit No. 39 of September 21, 2006
Individual evidence
- ^ Eyewitness Helga Cazas. In: ZDF History - Hitler's Blitzkrieg 1940 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: zdf.de, accessed on August 7, 2015
- ↑ Genealogy C. Gentner: Honon Cazas, 1894
- ↑ http://www.frankfurter-buerger-stiftung.de/index1.php?kat=ARCHIV&ukat=PROGRAMMARCHIV ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.wuermtal.net/service/oav10/artikel.asp?lnr=5659 ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Irmtrud Wojak in: Newsletter on the history and effects of the Holocaust · No. 28 · Spring 2006, Fritz Bauer Institute
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cazas, Helga |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Treuherz, Helga (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author of German-Jewish descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Steglitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 5, 2008 |
| Place of death | Paris |