Testimony of Shmuel Nahum, born in Lyon, France, 1932, regarding his experiences in Chalon-sur-Saône and Lyon

Testimony of Shmuel Nahum, born in Lyon, France, 1932, regarding his experiences in Chalon-sur-Saône and Lyon Parents of Turkish descent who immigrated to France in the 1930s; educated according to Sephardi traditions; move to Chalon-sur Saône prior to the war; studies in a public school and learns in aTalmud Torah; Outbreak of the war in Poland; rejection of his father’s request to enlist in the French Army; German occupation; cessation of his father's work as a marketplace peddler; information about the passport stamp; deportation of Jews to the Drancy camp; family and neighbors escape by boat to Lyon with assistance by smugglers; his father's work in a chemical plant; German occupation of Lyon; antisemitic exhibit at the theatre; murder of the synagogue beadle in the street; smuggled by his parents to the Notre-Dame de Sion convent; taken by a partisan and hidden by partisans in the home of Beroujon family (later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations); life in hiding; parents find a hiding place in a hospital in Lyon; liberation by the United States Army; End of war; collected by his mother and their return to Lyon; life with his parents; aliya to Israel, late 1948.