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Alexandre, Samuel

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Samuel Alexandre was born in Łódź, Poland in 1922, one of five children. He recounts his father's emigration to Belgium; joining him with his mother and brothers in approximately 1926; the births of two sisters in Charleroi; attending school; moving with his family to Antwerp in 1932; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; attending public school; German invasion; fleeing with his family to Toulouse; draft with his father and brothers into the Polish military; posting to a nearby military base; fleeing German bombings; joining his family in Toulouse; incarceration with his brothers and father as Polish POWs in Caylus; sending packages to his mother and sisters who were in Rivesaltes; his father arranging the escape of his mother and sisters, with assistance from a French officer; placement of his sisters and mother in hiding; transfer with his father and brothers to a camp with only Jews, then to Drancy in August 1942; encountering his uncle who was married to a non-Jew, thus exempting him from deportation; deportation with his father and brothers to Allach in August; slave labor laying train tracks; his father receiving extra food for playing chess with prisoner officials; and deportation of his father and brothers while he was at work (he never saw them again).

(Copyright : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies)

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Code interview : YA/FA/133
Date interview : 04/06/1997 et 24/11/1997
Lieu interview : Centre Audiovisuel de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles
Durée interview : 6h03
Langue interview : Français
Interviewers : Yannis Thanassekos et Michel Rosenfeldt
Cameraman : Adrien Antoniol
Consultation : Autorisée
Indexation thématique : non
Séquençage interview : non

Mots-clés du témoignage :
Allach / Dachau | Auschwitz / Birkenau | Dachau | Drancy | Juif / Juive | Marche / train de la mort | Schoprinitz/Szopienice (Zivilarbeitlager) | Tarnowitz | Warschau KZ

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