Raphaël Esrail
Sunday 08 October 2017 at 16:30
On the occasion of the publication of L'Espérance d'un baiser. The testimony of one of the last survivors of Auschwitz, ed. Robert Laffont, 2017. Organized in partnership with the Auschwitz Deportees' Union.
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An engineering student at the École centrale de Lyon, Raphaël Esrail is involved in the resistance movement of the «6th», from the EEIF. He was arrested in January 1944 in Lyon, imprisoned at the Montluc prison and transferred to Drancy. There he met Liliane Badour who would become his wife.
Deported to Auschwitz by convoy no. 67, he was assigned to the Union Werke factory. In January 1945, he was taken to the «Marches of Death», then transferred to the camp of Gross Rosen, finally Dachau and the Kommando of forced labour, the Waldlager. He was released on 1 May 1945 near Tutzing.
