Bertrand Herz and Yvette Lévy
Sunday 29 January 2017 at 2:30 PM
Bertrand Herz © Shoah Memorial / Michel Isaac.
Bertrand Herz was 14 years old when he was arrested with his parents and sister on July 5, 1944 in Toulouse by the Gestapo. Deported to Buchenwald with his father, he is sent with him to an external Kommando in Niederorschel to work on the assembly of Junkers aircraft. Released on April 11, 1945, he returns alone to Paris where he finds his sister, who had been deported to Ravensbrück, but not his mother, who died in this camp. He published Buchenwald’s Pull-over (2015).
Yvette Lévy © Shoah Memorial
Yvette Lévy is 16 years old in 1942. Young scout, she is responsible for recovering the children whose parents were arrested during the Vel'd'Hiv roundup. They will then be placed in a reception house in Paris, rue Lamarck. But during the night of 21 to 22 July 1944, the children from all the homes in the Paris region were arrested and transferred to Drancy. Yvette and the children are deported to Birkenau on July 31, 1944.
In the presence of Bertrand Herz and Yvette Lévy, witnesses.
Moderated by Dominique Durand, journalist, historian, president of the international committee Buchenwald, Dora et Kommandos, and Olivier Lalieu, historian, responsible for the development of places of memory and external projects, Shoah Memorial.
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