Jules Fainzang

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Jules Fainzang (born May 18, 1922 in Warsaw , † December 21, 2015 ) was a French survivor of the Holocaust .

At the age of 20 he was arrested by the French gendarmerie because of his Jewish origin and then extradited to the Germans. On August 28, 1942, he was sent to Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp together with 1,000 Jewish deportees from the Drancy assembly camp in convoy No. 25 (later relocated to Blechhammer concentration camp ). When the convoy got there three days later, only 71 people were alive; after the concentration camp was closed there were only eight of the original 1000.

Contemporary witness reports

Fainzang was one of the last living French witnesses of the Holocaust. In France he gave interviews about the circumstances of his deportation, spoke as a witness to school classes and remembered the horrors of the past several times a month in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . In addition, he accompanied school classes on study trips to concentration camps .

bibliography

  • In 2002 Jules Fainzang published the book "Mémoire de Déportation" by the publishing house l'Harmattan, Paris. In it he describes his personal experiences about the deportation and extermination of the Jews in Auschwitz . ( ISBN 2-7475-3393-X )

Movies

  • Jules Fainzang worked as a contemporary witness on the DVD documentation "Le travail concentrationnaire par des déportés d'Auschwitz" of the French Cercle d'étude de la Déportation et de la Shoah. [1]
  • In the Collège St. Michel de Reims, pupils developed a video documentation about his experiences, which was published under the title "Jules Fainzang, rescapé d'Auschwitz". [2]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Décès de Jules Fainzang on December 21, 2015 ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.memorialdelashoah.org
  2. ↑ Un cinquième train de la mémoire ( French ) sion91.fr. Archived from the original on January 30, 2008. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
  3. ↑ Jules Fainzang, rescapé d'Auschwitztémoigne au collège Saint-Michel de Reims ( French ) Archived from the original on December 28, 2009. Retrieved on May 27, 2019.
  4. ↑ Auschwitz-Birkenau ( frNZÖSISCH ) tdechardin.org. Archived from the original on October 23, 2007. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Fainzang, Jules
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Holocaust survivor
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 2015