Seventy years after the Vel d'HIV in July 1942 France the responsibility for "full" for the deportation of 13,000 Jews in Paris will take over, says survivor Joseph Weismann, awarded the Order Sunday Mans convicts was rejected years.
"With this medal, the loop began July 16, 1942 is finally over., This is my confession, what happened," he told AFP, Mr. Weismann, 83, one of the few survivors of the attack.
He fled at the age of 11 years in the field of Beaune-la-Rolande (Loiret), where he was taken after three days in the Velodrome d'Hiver Mr. Weismann has so far failed to reach an agreement that is not at it in the scope the award criteria listed in order of February 7, 1959 years.
Terms Rewind "special" was presented the Medal to him in the morning and was elected Minister Stéphane Le Foll Sarthe, Le Mans, where he lives today in memory of the victims of racist and anti-Semitic French state crimes.
"This medal was not issued, which is a mixture of shame, guilt, and shame on the French" this page in its history, Weismann said. It was not until 1995, Jacques Chirac that France recognizes its responsibility in the deportation of Jews.
- "We just have to stop," -
16 and 17 July 1942 the police in Vichy 13,152 people, including more than 4,000 children staged a massive raid of Jews in France.
"I was 11 years old his father, his mother, his two sisters, rue des Abbesses in the 18th," Mr. Weismann recalls, whose story inspired the hit movie "The Roundup" in 2010.
"By noon, July 16, crossed the street, a friend, who told me:" You should go home, that's not good for the Jews of today ", shortly after he received the two policemen French uniforms and civilian cold" air.
"" Madam, you have 15 minutes to pack your bags, you're under arrest, "said my mother."
Causes his family and the other rounded Vel d'HIV remembers Joseph lived for three days, "without water, without food, useless in a heat bath."
Beaune-la-Rolande, who are deported to Auschwitz with his family about August 7, is transmitted when the "German officers come to me, an excerpt from a column with other children, because unlike Berlin is not for the Vichy asked deportation of children in this time. "
- "Five hours with barbed wire," -
Two days later the brand "unbearable scene deportation" of the parents was, managed the unthinkable: to escape the camp.
"I had the opportunity to recruit another boy, also named Joseph., Five hours We crawled under huge pile of barbed wire. Perhaps Constable Atalaya sleep, maybe he was, but n is not, maybe he did not see anything that I think , "reflected Mr. Weismann.
Two children come to Paris, while driving through a led in a police ... walk again leave them. "Everything is there, even good people dressed as police officers," said a survivor.
Joseph Weismann then placed in children's homes before. Sarthe in the Sandpiper, where he allowed the rest of the war
"My friend Joseph was sent into exile in the United States and has never set foot in France," killed in a country where women and children. "
"In 1948, the founding of Israel, some friends asked me to emigrate there., But I have always been very French. I'll stay here."
Today we have the extreme right in France and in Europe, it seems that it was "hard to swallow".
For in spite of a different tone, "The fund is a racist and anti-Semitic work has not changed," said the octogenarian.
"It is an extreme right exists and has always existed in France: one to spit their venom targeted under Vichy," he says.
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