Not listed in the OSE fund L'enfance sauve 09_11_2009 154. Armand Bulwa.
Aron, known as Armand, Bulwa was born on 27/12/1929 in Piotrkow (Russian Empire, currently Poland). He is the son of Abraham Bulwa and Esther Kaminska. He has a brother, Moïse, born in 1939.
Aron was 10 years old when the Jewish quarter where he lived was transformed into a ghetto in October 1939. Thanks to his father, Aron is hired in a glassworks located outside the ghetto in 1941. He thus escapes the week of roundups, unlike his mother and younger brother, who were deported and murdered in the camp of Treblinka (Poland) in October 1942.
The ghetto is liquidated and Aron loses permanent contact with his father, who is arrested and transferred to the arms factory in the camp of Skarzysko (Poland). Aron is arrested and held prisoner in the synagogue of the city. He narrowly escapes the shootings in Raków (Poland) by finding a forced labor position in a factory. He survives thanks to the protection of his paternal uncle, Motek Bulwa.
In November 1944, he was transferred to a Kommando attached to a foundry dependent on the camp of Czestochowa (Poland). He was separated from his uncle during the evacuation to the camp of Buchenwald (Germany) in January 1945. At the camp, Aron survives thanks to a mutual aid network led by the German communist Gustav Schiller, deputy block leader.
The camp was liberated on 11/04/1945, and a thousand Jewish children were taken in by the Work of Relief to Children (OSE), 426 of whom were welcomed in France. The only survivor of his family, he transited through the home of Ecouis (Eure) of the OSE. He moved in with the Bulwa family where he learned the trade of tailoring, although there was no kinship between them.
Aron married their daughter Suzanne in 1947 and they have a daughter, Sylvie born in 1962. Aron was naturalized French by decree of 15/02/1952.
The Shoah Memorial offers its most sincere condolences to his family.
