Yvette Lévy

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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

  1. ↑ http://ecole.orange.fr
  2. ↑ Travail de mémoire, sur lieux de mémoire
  3. ^ Yvette Lévy, une scout déportée juste avant la Liberation ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ TV5 documentary 'Dossier: Auschwitz'

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personal data
SURNAME Lévy, Yvette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French survivors of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris