Mémoires de Léon Grynberg rescapé d'Auschwitz
1903-1979
Description:... Memoirs of a Polish Jew (1903-1979) from Minsk-Mazowieck relating his experiences before and during the Holocaust. He joined the Zionist Workers' Party but was imprisoned by the police from 1929-30 for illegal communist activities. In 1931, he emigrated to Paris, married, and became active in the French Communist Party. After the Nazi occupation, he was interned with his brother Moshe in Beaune-la-Rolande from May 1941 to June 1942, when they were deported to Auschwitz. Moshe was murdered a week later, but Leon survived numerous selections until his transfer to Warsaw in 1943 as part of the team in charge of the demolition of the ghetto. In May 1944, Grynberg was taken on a death march to Dachau and then to Mühldorf. In 1945 he was liberated at Innsbrück and returned to Paris. His wife Guitele and his daughter Rosa (b. 1939) were rounded up at Vel d'Hiv in July 1942 and interned at Beaune-la-Rolande. Guitele was deported to Auschwitz. Rosa was placed in a children's home organized by the UGIF; she was deported to Auschwitz in July 1944. Both of them perished.
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