Marise Crémieux-Hurstel bequeathed to the Memorial her diary of a Jewish teenager written under Vichy

Nicole Zimmermann, journalist and author, was the first to hold in her hands the diary of her stepmother, Marise Crémieux-Hurstel. She then decided to make a copy for each of her descendants and to publish it a few months ago ("Diary of a Jewish teenager under the Occupation", at the Privat editions).

It was in 1943 that Marise began to narrate to this new paper confidant the life of her family, her days with her mother, her grandmother and her sister in Vichy France, her moves and changes of school, identity and especially her fear, that of being arrested, denounced, the one who will never leave her and who continues to live there at 90 years old today.

The Journal has joined the archives of the Memorial

At the end of the war, his father who had been arrested and deported to Poland will not return. The family will eventually learn that he died in Sobibor, a German extermination camp located on the Polish-Ukrainian border.

Le Journal de Marise Crémieux-Hurstel has now joined the approximately 40 million archival documents stored at the Shoah Memorial. "These are our only weapons to oppose those who in 50 years, 100 years, will try to mislead our history" said Jacques Fredj. This journal, like many testimonies archived at the Memorial Documentation Center is a new stone brought to the reconstruction of the history of the Shoah.