Yvette Lévy
Yvette Lévy (formerly Dreyfus ; born June 21, 1926 in Paris , 11th arrondissement ) is a French survivor of the Holocaust .
Life
She was the daughter of from Alsace originating Jews and grew up in a suburb of Paris with her two brothers. Although the family fled to Tours from the Nazis , they later returned to Paris, where they had to endure the consequences of the Nuremberg Laws .
Lévy worked for the " Israelite scouts " in France and took in children of deported Jews until their group was captured by the Gestapo on July 22, 1944 and taken to the Drancy assembly camp.
On July 31 of the same year, Lévy was brought to Auschwitz-Birkenau in a convoy together with 1,300 people . In October 1944 she was transferred to a camp in Czechoslovakia . There she worked with Germans and Czechs in an arms factory. After the camp was abandoned by the SS in April 1945 , they made their way back to France .
During the war, Lévy married a Jew from Marseille .
Contemporary witness reports
Lévy is one of the last surviving contemporary witnesses. In France she gives interviews about the circumstances of her deportation to Auschwitz and the situation of women in the extermination camps . As a contemporary witness, she not only speaks to school classes, but also takes part in commemorative trips with students.
In 2004, Yvette Lévy was admitted to the Mémorial de la Shoah de la Mairie de Paris . A year later, her life story was broadcast in the TV5MONDE documentary Dossier: Auschwitz (contemporary witnesses of the extermination camps).
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://ecole.orange.fr
- ↑ Travail de mémoire, sur lieux de mémoire
- ^ Yvette Lévy, une scout déportée juste avant la Liberation ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ TV5 documentary 'Dossier: Auschwitz'
Web links
- Memories of Auschwitz, March 2005
- Temps et mémoire: Yvette Lévy, déportée à Auschwitz ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Visit of French Auschwitz survivors in March 2001 in Auschwitz
- Work with students
- Experience report
- Commemoration of the Kindertransport from France
- Video dossier from LeMonde.fr
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lévy, Yvette |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French survivors of the Holocaust |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1926 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |