Testimony of Lucie (Weiss) Chiszin/Chiszyn, born in Saint-Mihiel, [France, ] 1923, regarding her experiences in Metz, Toulouse, and Lyon

Testimony of Lucie (Weiss) Chiszin/Chiszyn, born in Saint-Mihiel, [France,] 1923, regarding her experiences in Metz, Toulouse, and Lyon Her parents were Herman Weiss, born in Sosnowitz [Poland], and Helen (Blumenfeld) Weiss, born in Będzin [Poland}; her parents emigrated from Poland to Metz, France in the 1920s; her parents were merchants; move to Saint-Mihiel and Troyes, and return to Metz; joining the Eclaireurs Israélites de France (EIF, the Jewish Scouts of France); The Exode (massive flight of French populations in May–June 1940 following the German occupation), air-raids over Metz and move with her mother to Dijon, 1940 (her father had been hospitalized in Metz, and all trace of him disappeared after the German occupation of the city); travel by train, and arrival at Langogue; receiving a laissez-passer from a French Army officer, and travel to Toulouse; school attendance and giving private tutoring to support herself; Hamizrachi Movement activities; declaration that she is a Jew, and having her identification card stamped with the word “Juif (Jew)”; her mother’s arrest because she held an identification card issued in Metz; her mother’s release due to intervention by the witness; contact with La Sixième, the underground movement; obtaining an identity card with the name Weiss, with no Jewish stamp at the town hall of Montauban; move to Lyon to avoid detention, 1943; her mother’s move to Lyon; work in a pharmacy; underground activities; obtaining false documents; liberation in Lyon, 1944; Return to Toulouse; marriage, 1945.