Guiroa
Markowitch
Guiroa Markowitch
Guiroa was born in 1933 to an upper-middle-class Polish Jewish family. They were proud of their "French son" and convinced that neither France nor Germany would harm them. However, his father, a cavalry officer, was arrested in May 1941 during the Billet Vert roundup and deported to Pithiviers and then Auschwitz. On July 16, 1942, Guiroa was asleep in his room when the police came to take his mother to the Vél' d'Hiv. Alone in Paris, he took a random train and found himself hidden by Spanish anarchists, for whom he carried out small resistance missions. [...+]
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