Jean Vaislic
Sunday 05 March 2017 at 16h30
On the occasion of the publication of From the bottom of my memory... Interviews with a Holocaust survivor in Poland by Jean Vaislic. Interviews conducted by Pierre Lasry, preface by Sandrine Mörch, postface by Alain Vaislic, collection «Témoignages de la Shoah», Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah/ Éditions Le Manuscrit, 2016
Jean Vaislic © Memorial
of the Holocaust/ Michel Isaac.
Born in Lodz, Jean is 13 years old in 1939. The following year, he wanders alone on the roads of Poland, fleeing the Nazis who took his father. He was arrested in 1942, then deported and integrated into the Kommando de Harzungen (satellite camp of Dora and Buchenwald). Jean meets Wacek, without whom he would probably not have survived. In August 1944, he was transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau, then to Gleiwitz, Blechhammer, Gross-Rosen and, at the end of a long «March of death», to Buchenwald where he regained his freedom on 11 April 1945.
