Tribute to Bequi Pisanti Covoidis, deceased on 11 September 2020
Bequi Pisanti Covoidis
Shoah Memorial/Coll. Bequi Covoidis
Bequi Pisanti Covoidis
The Shoah Memorial honors the memory of Bequi Pisanti Covoidis and offers its condolences to his family and friends.
Born to parents from Istanbul, Bequi Covoidis born Pisanti was born on December 30, 1925 in Paris. His parents, Fortunée and Albert, arrive in France at the beginning of the 1920s and settle in Paris rue du Moulin vert. Albert, is an electrician and, Wealthy seamstress, have three daughters: Bequi, Victoria and Louise.
During the occupation, the family hides in Villepinte where they have an apartment. It is at his workplace that Albert is 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 July 30, 1944 to Auschwitz Birkenau by convoy 77. Bequi and Victoria are selected for work. are then transferred at the end of October 1944 to the Kratzau camp in Poland, and will stay there until their liberation by the Red Army on May 8, 1945.
Only survivors of their family, they meet their mother at the Lutetia hotel in Paris on May 24, 1945.
Maurice and Bequi Covoidis on their wedding day.
Bequi marries Maurice in 1947. Maurice was deported from Salonika with his wife and 4 children, parents and siblings.
He is the only survivor.
Shoah Memorial/Coll. Bequi Covoidis
Find the testimony of Bequi Covoidis within the Shoah Memorial, in September 2018:
