Bequi Pisanti CovoidisThe Shoah Memorial salutes the memory of Bequi Pisanti Covoidis and offers its condolences to his family and friends.
Born of parents from Istanbul, Bequi Covoidis née Pisanti was born on 30 December 1925 in Paris. His parents, Fortunée and Albert, arrived in France at the beginning of the 1920s and settled in Paris on rue du Moulin vert. Albert is an electrician and, Fortunée seamstress, have three daughters: Bequi, Victoria, and Louise.
During the occupation, the family hid in Villepinte where they had an apartment. It was at his workplace that Albert was arrested. Shortly after, the police officers go to look for their three daughters. Fortunée is then absent during the arrest.
Albert and his three daughters meet in Drancy and are deported on 30 July 1944 to Auschwitz Birkenau by convoy 77. Bequi and Victoria are selected for the job.
The only survivors of their family, they meet their mother at the Hotel Lutetia in Paris on 24 May 1945.
Find the testimony of Bequi Covoidis within the Shoah Memorial, in September 2018:
