Vel d’Hiv survivor, testifies: “if I tell my story it is for the children who have not returned”
Arlette Testyler is a survivor of the Vel d’Hiv raid. On July 17, 1942, at the age of 9, she was arrested with her sister and her mother and taken to the Vélodrome d’hiver in Paris. She transferred to Beaune-la-Rolande (Loiret) she managed to escape from her thanks to her mother. She and her sister will hide with the farmers until the end of the war.
“If I tell my story it is because of the children who have not returned, if I do not they will die a second time. They no longer have graves,” he explains on BFMTV.
Pithiviers, second place of French deportation after Drancy
Part of the 13,000 Jews – including 4,115 children – detained in Paris and the suburbs on July 16, 1942 and the following days by 9,000 French officials, at the request of the Germans, passed through the Pithiviers station.
8,160 of them, including the elderly and infirm, were transferred to the Vélodrome d’Hiver stadium in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. Before being evacuated to the fields of Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis), Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande (Loiret). From the Pithiviers station alone, eight convoys left for the extermination camps, for more than 8,000 deportees, making it the second place of French deportation after that of Drancy. Only a few dozen adults will survive.
Emmanuel Macron is expected at 3:00 p.m. in Pithiviers to inaugurate
The head of state will deliver this Sunday an “offensive speech” against anti-Semitism, which “still lurks and sometimes in an insidious way”, which is “very worrying”, announced an adviser to the Elysee. During this commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Rafle du Vel d’Hiv, Emmanuel Macron will also denounce “historical revisionism”, in particular on the role of Marshal Pétain during World War II, according to him.
Accompanied by various personalities, including the historian Serge Klarsfeld, the camp survivor Ginette Kolinka, and the director general of the SNCF Jean-Pierre Farandou, Emmanuel Macron is expected at 3:00 p.m. at the small Pithiviers station, one hundred kilometers south of Paris. , which has not received travelers since the late 1960s and has just been transformed into a museum by the Shoah Memorial.
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Source: BFM TV
