Tribute to Nicolas Roth who left us on the night of September 17, 2020

The Shoah Memorial salutes the memory of Nicolas Roth and offers its condolences to his family and friends.

Memorial of the Shoah/Michel Isaac

Nicolas Roth

was born in 1928 in Debrecen, a Hungarian city invaded by the Germans in March 1944. Locked in the ghetto with his family, Nicolas Roth is deported in June 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau after the liquidation of the ghetto. He manages to survive despite hunger, illness, ill-treatment and the exhausting work to which he is forced. He undergoes the death marches. During the evacuation of the camp, he is transferred to Gross-Rosen then to Dachau. After a stay in Israel, he settled in France in 1946. Testifying in particular about what the Hungarian Jews had experienced was a permanent commitment.

He regularly testified at the Memorial, the very last time dates from the 1^er last March. Nicolas Roth was also involved in the Yad Vashem France committee for many years.
Nicolas Roth is the author of Avoir 16 ans à Auschwitz. Memory of a Hungarian Jew (ed. The Manuscript, 2011), a testimony of profound lucidity and sensitivity.