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YVETTE LÉVY

YVETTE LÉVY

(PARIS/FRANCE 1926)

FLIGHT RESCUED CHILDREN ARREST INTERNMENT DEPORTATION FORCED LABOR LIBERATION RETURN

Escaped from the Nazis to Tours

Nuremberg Laws

Member of the Jewish scouts and the Resistance

Took care of children of deported Jews after the “Vel‘ d’Hiv Roundup”

22. July 1944 Arrested by the Gestapo

Internment in the Drancy camp

July 31, 1944 Deportation to Auschwitz

October 1944 Deportation to a sub-camp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp

Forced Labor in an arms factory

Mai 1945 The SS abandoned the camp

Return to France

Still suffers from nightmares

She is very engaged in Holocaust education

Lest We Forget Paris 12-15-2020