Memoirs of Henri Ejnès, born in Lublin, Poland, in 1921, about his experiences under a false identity in Reims, Montluçon, and Lyon

Memoirs of Henri Ejnès, born in Lublin, Poland, in 1921, about his experiences under a false identity in Reims, Montluçon, and Lyon Father, Laïzer Ejnès, born in Grabowiec in 1893, and mother, Haya Léa (Edelstein) Ejnès, from Lubartów; brothers: Moshé Maurice and Salomon Serge, bon in Lublin. Life in Lublin; emigration to France in 1932; staying in Paris and moving to Reims in 1933; life in Reims before the war; economic hardships; witness drops out of school and works with father in uncle's and aunt's knitting plant; moving to Paris and living with uncle, André Rak, and Aunt Fanny, in 1937, and doing sewing jobs; back to Reims; active in branch of LICA (Ligue internationale contre l'antisémitisme, an organization that fights antisemitism) in Reims; French naturalization in 1938; working in the clothing trade; brother, Maurice, is inducted into the Défense nationals; switching workplace to a Renault plant in Paris; moving to Neuvy-Saint-Sépulchre and back to Reims; German air raids; travel by train to Bordeaux in 1940; moving to Bègles with assistance from Mr. Felsenhart of LICA; moving to Castets and working on a farm; back to Reims by order of the French authorities; confiscation of radio sets; anti-Jewish legislation; ID cards stamped with the word "Juif"; "Aryanization"; foreign Jews arrested in 1941; hiding with brothers Serge and Maurice with André Laurent, job foreman at the glaziers' plant where Maurice works; receiving ID cards without the "Juif" stamp due to assitance from a police commander, a family acquaintance, and travel by rail with brother Maurice to Moulins, Allier département; exfiltration of both to the unoccupied zone in April 1942; travel to Montluçon, which Serge and the parents have also reached; moving to Lyon; Germans invade the unoccupied zone in November 1942; activities under the Mouvement de la Jeunesse Sioniste (MKS, Young Zionist Movement); assembling carburetors at a Zénith plant in Bron, a suburb of Lyon; Resistance activity: distributing anti-Nazi leaflets and conducting sabotage at the plant; receiving false papers in the name of Henri Gauthier; Maurice joins the Resistance; Maurice is imprisoned in Montluçon in 1943; deported to the Saint-Paul-d'Eyjeaux and Saint Julien camps and released because of his youth; Lyon liberated in September 1944; Maurice inducted into the French Army (discharged in 1948); back to Reims. (The memoirs were written in 1990–1992 and published in 2009).