Jean Vaislic
Sunday, March 05, 2017 at 4:30 PM
On the occasion of the publication of From the Depths of my Memory... Interviews with a survivor of the Holocaust 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 Shoah / 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 is arrested in 1942, then deported and integrated into the Kommando of Harzungen (satellite camp of Dora and Buchenwald). Jean meets Wacek there, without whom he would probably not have survived. In August 1944, he was transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau, then to Discowitz, Blechhammer, Gross-Rosen and, at the end of a long "Death March", to Buchenwald where he regained his freedom on 11 April 1945.
