Madelene Mercadoff nee Solomon was born in Valcea, Romania, 1921 to Marcel and Lea. She was an engineer and married to Joseph. Prior to WWII she lived in Rouen, France. During the war she was in Auschwitz, Poland. Deported with Transport 69 from Drancy,Camp,France to Auschwitz Birkenau,Extermination Camp,Poland on 07/03/1944. Madelene survived the Shoah.
Jews deported to or imprisoned in camps, ghettos or forced labor frameworks, who were in hiding, in clandestinity or resistance formations, or suffered relentless persecution under antisemitic legislation in territories controlled by the Nazis or their allies, and were alive by the end of 1945 are considered Shoah survivors.