I recently watched the movie "Sarah's Key" and understood more about the
internment and deportation of French Jews. The movie was more than good enough
to warrant purchasing a DVD.
Chris
>
>As some of you know, the Wajsman clan has a branch in France (and a branch of
>that branch in Brussels). Actually, it was the first part of the family that
>emigrated from Eastern Poland, when Shmuel Wajsman left Lublin for Paris in
>1920 in seach of a better life. He settled in to a working class existence in
>Paris and had three children, one of whom was Joseph, who is not technically
>my uncle (I think the correct term is granduncle or some such, but is totally
>immaterial—he is simply “mon vieux oncle” when we speak). Joseph was born in
>1930, and in 1942, like most other French Jews, he and his family were rounded
>up and sent to a transit camp, from where most were sent on to Auschwitz and
>perished there. But Joseph managed to escape the camp with a friend and was
>hidden by villagers in the Loire valley during the remainder of the war. He
>later settled in Le Mans where he lives to this day in an old house in the
>centre with a great wine cellar. In 2010, the story of his capture and escape
>in 1942 was made into a movie, La Rafle, the premiere of which I had the
>pleasure to attend at a theatre on Champs Elysées in March of that year (the
>English title is The Roundup).
>
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