Testimony of Esther (Papirman) Ashkenazi, born in Paris, 1927, regarding her experiences in Paris, in a children's home operated by the UGIF, and in hiding with a family of farmers in the Marne region

Testimony of Esther (Papirman) Ashkenazi, born in Paris, 1927, regarding her experiences in Paris, in a children's home operated by the UGIF, and in hiding with a family of farmers in the Marne region Her family is of Russian-Polish origin; transfer to Paris in the 1920's; draft of her father to the French Army at the outbreak of the war; evacuation of her mother and the children to the Bretagne region; return to Paris; anti-Jewish legislation; her father's capture; detention in the Pithiviers and Drancy camps; advance warning from a senior police officer about the large round-up in July 1942; hiding in a neighbors' home; her parents' capture, August 1942, and detention in the Bourges jail; the witness returns to her parents' home in Paris; transfer to a children's home in Paris operated by the UGIF; transfer to a farmers' home in the Marne region under the supervision of a priest and with the assistance of the Jewish Sixth underground group; good relations with the family of farmers; return to Paris in the summer of 1944; deportation of the children in the children's homes to Auschwitz; false anticipation of her her parents' return. Work within the framework of the Jewish Scouts; work in a school for counselors run by "Castor" Robert Gamzon in Orsay, 1947; marriage; aliya to Israel after the Six-Day War.