Joseph
Weisman
Joseph Weisman
Joseph was born in 1931 into a very modest Polish family. He grew up in the Abbesses district, where there were no Jews. On July 16, 1942, Joseph, his two sisters and their parents were arrested and taken to the Vél' d'Hiv, then to Beaune-la-Rolande. On the day he and his family were to be deported, he and dozens of other children were taken from the ranks and torn away from their parents with unseen violence. It was the last time he saw his father, mother and sisters. Left alone in the camp, [...+]
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« We crawled under the barbed wires for hours. »
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« I was wearing a yellow star. I felt like everyone was staring at me. I was so ashamed. »
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« We were separated from our parents. The children screamed terribly »
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« At the Vel' d'Hiv, I put myself in a bubble. »
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