Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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/