Bertrand Herz and Yvette Lévy
Sunday 29 January 2017 at 14:30
Bertrand Herz © Shoah Memorial / Michel Isaac.
Bertrand Herz was 14 years old when he was arrested with his parents and sister on 5 July 1944 in Toulouse by the Gestapo. Deported to Buchenwald with his father, he is sent with him in a Kommando outside of Niederorschel to work on the assembly of Junkers planes. Released on 11 April 1945, he returns alone to Paris where he finds his sister, who had been deported to Ravensbrück, but not his mother, who died in that camp. He published Le Pull-over de Buchenwald (2015).
Yvette Lévy © Holocaust Memorial
Yvette Lévy was 16 in 1942. Young girl scout, she is responsible for recovering children whose parents were arrested during the Vél'd'Hiv scoop. They will then be placed in a foster home in Paris, rue Lamarck. However, in the night of 21 to 22 July 1944, children from all homes in the Paris region were arrested and transferred to Drancy. Yvette and the children were deported to Birkenau on 31 July 1944.
In the presence of Bertrand Herz and Yvette Lévy.
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