Suzanne Sabine Cohen

Testimony of Suzanne Sabine (Veksler) Cohen, born in Paris, France in 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Gretz-Armainvilliers, in Pau, while using a false identity in Nice, and in a village in the Oradour area until the liberation Life in Paris with her family; her parents work in fur processing; her father emigrates to the United States when she is five years old; her childhood in Gretz-Armainvilliers; she studies in an elementary school; German occupation, 1940; escape to Orléans with her mother on foot; escape on a train to the south of France until arriving to Castelnau; escape back to Paris; escape to Pau with her mother; life in Pau with a non-Jewish family; escape to Nice; she studies in an elementary school; transfer to a private school that is run by a French family in the area; obtaining forged documents; receipt of the false name of Suzan Villars; escape from Nice, 1941; life in a village in the Oradour area and in a village in the south of France; her mother's contacts with partisans in the Oradour area; liberation, and return to Paris; emigration to the United States.