« The day before the Vel d'Hiv roundup, my mother's friend, a police commissioner, came to warn her: "You have to save yourself immediately!" »
Jacques Itic
Jacques was born in 1936 in the Paris suburbs, where his parents had emigrated from Romania in the 1920s. He had a twin brother and two older sisters.
In July 1942, informed of the imminent roundup, Jacques' mother took her four children to Perpignan, where her husband was already a refugee. Upon her arrival, she learned that her husband had already replaced her by another woman. After a brief stay with their father, the four children were hidden with different families. Jacques, mistreated by the family who took him in, was rescued by his mother in 1944, who took him to live with his stepfather. Thereafter, he lived a very difficult life, under the banner of "marche ou crève" ("walk or die").
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