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Durleman, Eva Matter, Thérèse Neubert, France File 4685a On September 11, 1942, there was a large roundup of Jews in Lille. The arrested Jews were concentrated at the Fives railroad station, pending deportation from France. Mme Baran and her two children, ten-year-old Maurice and four-month-old Michel, were among those arrested. M. Baran had been arrested earlier, while trying to cross the demarcation line in search of a hiding place for his family, and he had been deported to the east. Maurice Baran was saved by sixteen-year-old Georgette Vandenabaele-Franchois (q.v.), his parents’...

: France

: Survived

Giet France

Giet, France File 8252 France Giet (b. 1910) lived in Troyes (Aube) and worked in Salomon Cohen’s knitwear factory. When France was occupied, Cohen and his wife, Claire, along with their twin sons, Guy and René, fled to the vicinity of Perpignan. Giet, deciding to cast her lot with that of her Jewish employers, joined them. The Cohens bought a farm where they lived until southern France was occupied. They then moved on to Nice, in the Italian zone. In April 1943, Guy, escorted by Giet, visited the farm near Perpignan to help sell it. On their way back, German police inspected the train and...

: France

: Survived

Dressen France (Durrleman)

: France

: Baptist Protestant

: Survived

Chapot Jean-Marie & Louise (France)

Chapot, Jean-Marie Chapot, France Louise Before the war Alfred and Hanna Krell lived in Manheim, Germany, with their two daughters, Léah (b. 1932) and Ruth (b. 1933). In October 1940 they, like every other Jew in Manheim, were deported to the Gurs camp in the south of France. The conditions there were terrible, and at some point the OSE (Oeuvre de Secour aux Enfants) decided to take the children out. They turned to Hanna, convincing her that she had to let go of her girls so they could survive. The two sisters were taken out of the camp at night. Hannah told Ruth she would come to pick them up...

: France

: Survived

Delidais Jules & Reine (Caseaux)

: France

: Survived

Rongier Jean & Marie (Gaillac); Daughter: Tournier Léontine (Rongier)

: France

: Survived

de Créty Gaston & Jeanne

De Créty, Baron Gaston De Créty, Jeanne File 4898 Gaston and Jeanne de Créty lived in their chateau in Excident, a town in the département of Dordogne. Créty had a Jewish friend, André Wormus, who had been interned with him in a prisoner of war camp during World War I. When Wormus was arrested and deported during the German occupation, the Crétys sheltered his two sisters, his brother-in-law, and his niece. In November 1942, they also sheltered the ten-year-old and twelve-year-old sons of M. Bernheim, an old friend of Créty’s, who had joined the Free French forces abroad. The children stayed...

: France

: Survived

Ronceray Léon & Marie (Durand)

: France

: Survived

Fourré Basile & Blanche (Gomard); Daughter: Clément Hélène (Fourré)

: France

: Survived

Bracchi Léontine (Terouin)

: France

: Survived

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