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Subject: [Leica] OT: new French films tells my French family's history
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 07:34:46 -0500
References: <D282C2C7-2E20-4AB3-8377-5719F1924BDF@frozenlight.eu>

wow, congrats to him and the folk who hid him

ric


On Jan 4, 2010, at 1:28 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> He still lives in Le Mans, still plays boulles and still enjoys the good 
> things in life. One of his principal activities in retirement is to be 
> there for his family, and to speak about the Holocaust and his own 
> experiences as a survivor to groups, especially children, around France. 
> He was arrested in 1942 along with all other Parisian Jews, separated from 
> his parents and sisters (all of whom perished in Auschwitz), fled the camp 
> with another 11-year old boy and thus avoided deportation to Poland, and 
> spent the rest of the war being hidden by people in the Loire valley, 
> where he settled after the war.
> 
> Now a film with a fairly significant budget (?20M or something like that) 
> has been made about his story:
> http://www.larafle-lefilm.com/



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