That’s a very moving picture, Peter, and for all I know, your
great-grandparents and my uncle Joseph’s parents may have known each other—they
lived in Paris at the same time, and they suffered the same fate. As you may
remember, Joseph saved himself by running away from the Drancy camp at age 11
with another boy, and spending the rest of the war in hiding in the Loire
valley. His story was told in the successful 2010 film La Rafle:
http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/La-Rafle
Cheers,
Nathan
On 5 Aug 2014, at 18:55, Peter Klein <pklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In the Jewish calendar, today is Tisha B'Av, the traditional day of mourning
> for catastrophes that have befallen the Jewish people. In that spirit, here
> is the last surviving piece of documentation of my great-grandmother Anna
> Vogel, who was deported from her Paris apartment to the transit camp at
> Drancy, and then to the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/14836604864/>
> Here's a picture of Anna (center), with her husband Pinchas Vogel (right),
> who died during the Nazi occupation, and a close family friend, "Uncle
> Charlie," who survived the war in America and lived to hold the one year-old
> me before he died. My first and middle names are Anglifications of Pinchas
> and Anna.
>
> Anna Vogel's name in the US Holocaust museum's database:
> <http://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=5375133>
> Database entry for her daughter Jeanne (my Nana's sister), who was deported
> and murdered earlier, along with her child.
> <http://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=5319376>
> More information on the deportation and extermination of French Jews:
> <http://www.deathcamps.org/reinhard/deportfrance.html>
>
> --Peter
>
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