May 10, 1940: German forces invaded France

Vichy collaboration with Nazi regime/Numerous anti-Jewish laws

1942: Father was accused of being a thief/Arrested and sent to jail

The rest of the family assumed false identities

Lived under the surname “Sabacier” until liberation

Their neighbors, the Thomassons, took great personal risk by helping them obtain food

Father was deported to 8 different prisons, military hospitals

and concentration camps including Drancy, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen

After liberation: family received a letter by him, saying they would be reunited soon

He never returned

In 1954 a man visited the family

He explained: it was with the help of the father and a Jewish-Hungarian doctor that he was able to

hide and recover from typhus in Auschwitz

Bar mitzvah in 1980

Lived in France until 1972

Moved to Washington with his wife

Lest We Forget Washington, D.C., 01-21-2018