Emil Meir Barukh

Testimony of Meir Emil Baruch, born in Bizerte, Tunisia, 1924, regarding his experiences helping the French underground, Kasserine and as a French Army soldier in Normandy From a well-to-do family with many children; attends a French school; French citizenship. Vichy government rise to power and restrictions in Tunisia, 1940; witness is denied the right to attend naval officer school; work as a hairdresser; passes on photographs of airfield plans to the French underground; arrest; German occupation, November 1942; move to Tunis; capture by the Germans and deportation to Kasserine; camp life including labor on fortifications and removing bombs; release, 1943; move to France; enlists in the French Army; combat in Normandy; liberation. Return to Tunis; locates family; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948; rehabilitation of his marriage and the birth of his son.