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...