Childhood in Paris before the war; family life;
German occupation, May 1940; arrest of his father following denunciation and his deportation to Drancy, 1941; yellow badge decree, early 1942; manhunt for Jews, July 1942; escape with his mother and grandfather with the assistance of a [female] French worker employed in the family business; hiding in Saint Julien du Sault; denunciation, and capture of his mother and grandfather; being smuggled to a nearby forest with the help of the partisans; return to the village after about ten days; liberation in the summer of 1944;
Life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1949.
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9916117
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Max
Meir
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Sherman
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11/02/1935
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Paris, France
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives