was born in 1928 in Debrecen, a Hungarian town invaded by the Germans in March 1944. Locked up in the ghetto with his family, Nicolas Roth was deported in June 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau after the liquidation of the ghetto. He manages to survive despite hunger, disease, mistreatment and the exhausting work to which he is forced. He underwent the death marches. During the evacuation of the camp, he was transferred to Gross-Rosen and then to Dachau. After a stay in Israel, he moved to France in 1946. Bearing witness in particular to what the Hungarian Jews had experienced was an ongoing commitment.
He regularly testified at the Memorial, the very last time being 1
Nicolas Roth is the author of Avoir 16 ans à Auschwitz. Memory of a Hungarian Jew (ed. Le Manuscrit, 2011), a testimony of profound lucidity and sensitivity.
