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RACHEL MILLER

RACHEL MILLER

(PARIS, FRANCE 1933)

PARENTS LIVED WARSAW FATHER AND UNCLE ARRESTED BY SS EVENTUALLY DIED MOTHER ALONE WAS SENT OFF LIVED UNDER DIFFERENT IDENTITY ENTIRE FAMILY TAKEN TO AUSCHWITZ LIBERATION EMIGRATION

RACHEL’S PARENTS LEFT WARSAW FOR PARIS WHERE HER MOTHER AND FATHER HAD BROTHERS AND SISTERS LIVING.

RACHEL WAS BORN IN PARIS IN 1933. IN 1940 HER FATHER AND UNCLE WERE TAKEN BY THE SS AND FRENCH POLICE IN 1941 THEY BOTH ENDED UP IN FRENCH HOSPITALS, THEY TOLD THEIR WIVES THEY HAD BEEN INJECTED WITH SOMETHING AND WITHIN HOURS THEY BOTH DIED. RACHEL’S MOTHER WAS LEFT ALONE WITH FOUR CHILDREN: ADOLPH, HENRI, SABINE AND RACHEL.

SHE SENT RACHEL OFF TO THE COUNTRY WITH A NON-JEWISH FRIEND AND TOLD RACHEL TO TAKE THE NAME CHRISTINE AND TO HIDE HER IDENTITY. THEY WERE TO JOIN HER LATER.

THE LAST TIME RACHEL SAW HER FAMILY WAS JULY 13TH, 1942.

ON JULY 16TH,1942, THE VEL’D’HIV ROUND UP TOOK PLACE IN PARIS AND HER ENTIRE FAMILY WAS TAKEN TO AUSCHWITZ WERE THEY WERE ALL MURDERED.

RACHEL EMIGRATED TO THE U.S. IN 1946 AND LIVED IN FIVE DIFFERENT FOSTER HOMES.

RACHEL MARRIED MILTON MILLER.

THEY HAD TWO SONS AND TWO GRANDDAUGHTERS

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