P. 268. Andree Pasquier and Camille and Noelle Wiedrich, Righteous Among the Nations . Surrounded by Gabriel, Maurice and Helen Kupferstein, Helene Pasquier, Righteous Among the Nations. Photo prior to October 2010 (BCFYV: DR).
Recognition Ceremony
three Righteous
at the City Hall of Paris from the 11th Ar
this Oct. 7, 2010
to read summaries of records Yad Vashem for Pasquier also Righteous Andrée Camilla and Noelle Wiedrich and speeches made on behalf of children saved, readers will understand the full extent of the ceremony hosted by the City Council last Thursday the 11th.
Mayor Patrick Bloche had prepared this event with two Deputies of the French Committee for Yad Vashem, Viviane Ejchenrand Saul and Paul.
Andree Pasquier
Summary File Yad Vashem, rescue Kupferstein:
- "Jacob and Bajla Kupferstein, of Polish origin, arrived in France in the 1920s. They live street Duris, Paris 20 rue du Fg and Temple, Paris 10e. Jacob worked as a journeyman tailor .
They have three children: Maurice, born December 6, 1927, Gabriel, 28 April 1929 and April 19, 1932 Helena.
During the holidays all three children are placed nurse in the Loir et Cher Fountain Hills near the Montoire at Georgette Pasquier they call "Grandma." She has many children whose Andree 22 years, married to Pierre Roland, they reside in Chateau-Renault (Indre).
Occurs and continues the occupation. Peter is refractory to STO (compulsory labor service) and hides in a nearby farm to not go to Germany.
After the roundup of the "Vel d'Hiv" in July 1942, parents Kupferstein a hiding place outside the capital. Then one of their friends Gloton Gaston, rent a villa in St. Cloud (Hts Seine) where they took refuge for a while.
Their youngest daughter, Helen, is entrusted to Andrew and Peter. The girl is registered in the municipal school of Chateau-Renault as the "Gloton. In May 1943, Gabriel joined her sister, and to make a little spending money he worked as a shoemaker until October 1943. Mauritius, it is entrusted to the family on a farm Montebran Cornillère Congrier in the Mayenne. But it also eventually join his brother and sister.
The parents stayed in St. Cloud until the Liberation in August 1944 then their mother came to find her children taken so effectively and so warmly sheltered from the Nazis and their collaborators. "
Photo taken during the occupation: Andrée Pasquier with brothers and sister Kupferstein (BCFYV / DR).
Speech Gabriel Kupferstein: - "Dear Dedee, That's how we always called thee .. . If we are meeting today is that thanks to you and Pierrot your husband that we were able to survive in these difficult times you have listened to your heart and your courage. It is certainly harder to manage teens aged 15 and 16, as young children, but you did and worry we are very grateful. In our heart long ago that we t'avions awarded this medal well deserved, but laziness, neglect, we have not done or requested. It took Charlotte, my daughter rebelled and decided to prepare the case for us, what she has done continuing his studies. I am very grateful to him. M hank Charlotte. She forced us to move us: "Bravo!" We've grown old for sure, (as grown). But we're still your kids. Thank Dedee. Also thank you all for being here and have made the trip. " Synthesis rescue sisters Psankiewicz: Louise and Rachel Psankiewicz (BCFYV / DR).
- "Abram Gitler and Chana (nee Zyto) Psankiewicz, both from Poland, were acquainted and married in Paris. They live street Duris, in the 20th. Abram practices as a cabinetmaker while Chana is a housewife. In 1932, Louise was born, followed by Rachel in 1934.
At the outbreak of war, Abram was a volunteer in the French army to fight Germany Nazi. It will be demobilized in September 1940.
May 14, 1941, under the responsibility of the Nazis and the Vichy regime, he was summoned by the "greenback" Beaune-la-Rolande (Loiret). He was interned in this camp until his deportation, June 27, 1942, in convoy No. 5.
July 16, 1942 occurred the "Vel d'Hiv roundup. Chana and her two daughters were arrested and placed in the center of the gathering "Bellevilloise in Paris 20e. Two sisters, Louise and Rachel manage to escape through an emergency exit and fled with their paternal grandparents. Chana, she was put behind the barbed wire of Drancy and then deported July 29, 1942 in convoy No. 12.
After the disappearance of their parents, Rachel is hidden from one place to another. His eldest, Louise, becomes the right of Mr. and Mrs. Proust.
In 1944, thanks to one of his cousins, Josepha Kupferstein, which provides it with false papers under the name "Roland Sannier, Rachel took her to Château-Renault (Indre et Loire) near Tours. Alas, the girl ends up in a violent and cruel nurse, did not hesitate to abuse while the threat of denunciation!
Louise warns that Madame Proust in turn prevents Andree Pasquier. The latter, hearing the distress in which Rachel is diving, retired to his executioner and the place with one of her sisters and her brother, Mr. and Mrs. Saillard. This pair will bring hope and love of life to the child abused physically and psychologically.
If Maurice Gabriel, Helen Kupferstein and their cousins Rachel and Louise Psankiewicz lives have been saved, thanks to Andree Pasquier, this wonderful woman with a big heart that despite the dangers, has never hesitated to take any risks. They vow eternal gratitude to him and never forget it.
His appointment as "Righteous among the Nations" is well deserved. "
discount Legion of Honour by Rachel Jedinak Andree Pasquier-Psankiewicz (DR).
Rachel Jedinak Address:
- "Dear Andree,
Medal of the Righteous and the Legion of Honor which will reward you today are well deserved.
In fact, I met you at Castle - Renault in 1944. You were a very young woman, smiling and full of humor. You kept at that time, my cousins, Maurice and Helen Gabriel Kupferstein to protect them from being deported. It was natural for you.
After the deportation of my parents, who lived in a center for Jewish children and hid in different homes, I was taken by my cousin Joseph, the eldest of the siblings, under a false name to Chateau-Renault. I was placed in a senior nurse with whom I have obscured the name. It terrified me by slapping and threats. I was 9 years old, I suffered and I had difficulty communicating.
My sister Louise, came to this town after me, was maid of all work in good people, Mr and Mrs Proust who, having found my physical and mental thee warned. You came to fetch me immediately from the hag and you entrusted me to your sister and your brother, Mr. and Mrs. Saillard, one month before the Release. At home, I took courage and will to live.
I thank you with all my heart for your generosity and your willingness to be helped and protected us in these difficult times for us.
Also, with the Medal of the Righteous who delivered thee this day, it is with joy I'll decorate the medal of Chevalier in the Order of the Legion of Honor. "
Camille and Noelle Wiedrich
Camille Wiedrich, Righteous Among the Nations (BCFYV / DR).
Summary File Yad Vashem:
- "John's parents were Russian immigrants Gorodiche arrived in France in the 1880s. Their son was born in Paris in 1903. It ; married Gabrielle, born Brunschwig. The couple will give life to two children: Nicolas, born in July 1938 and Norge in May 1940.
John works as a chief surgeon at the Hospital in Arles (Bouches du Rhone) and at the Clinique Jeanne d'Arc.
Occur laws' anti-Jewish. " Became an "asocial", the renowned surgeon can no longer perform his job.
His remarks against the Vichy government and vis-à-vis the German invaders won him being arrested in December 1941 by the same son of Petain Desvallières. Gorodiche The doctor was sent to Corsica where he finds himself assigned to house arrest. He fled to Cannes and decides to enlist in the Forces Free French. Was taken prisoner in Spain, but managed to escape. Joined General de Gaulle, enter into resistance as the Commander "Granville".
The situation becomes very dangerous in Arles for Gabrielle, her parents and two children, go take refuge in a cabin with the help of some friends including Louise Berthelot.
April 1943, the noose is tightening again. Gabrielle contact Ms. Martin, Director of the Hospital at Arles, which, with the help of Ms. Francia Foretier, clinic nurse Joan of Arc leads children and Camilla Noelle Wiedrich.
In 1939, the couple Wiedrich, ran a print shop under the "numerus" in Strasbourg. Very patriotic and refusing to work under the German yoke, they left Strasbourg to settle in the neighborhood of Arles, the "Mas des Muses" (Bouches du Rhone).
Here Francia Foretier their request to host the children some time. Without hesitation, aware of the risks they accept. Noelle Camille and become "Grandma and Grandpa." And this, from 1943 to 1945 ... After Liberation, Camille and Noelle returned to Alsace, then when they retire, retire in Vence (Alpes-Maritimes) until their disappearance: Noelle in 1968, Camille in 1973. Gorodiche The family never forgot and Noelle Camille, with their generosity and their courage, and through which the hidden children had survived. In 2005, at the initiative of the family and Gorodiche with help from the city of Arles, a commemorative plaque is placed on the facade of the building of the former printing "NUMERUS" a sign of homage and gratitude. " Noëlle Wiedrich, Righteous Among the Nations (BCFYV / DR). Nicolas Gorodiche Address: - "Here we are, my sister and I Norge, happy to live in this beautiful country of France, surrounded by our 6 children and our 20 grandchildren. Not all are present here, some of them live outside France, but all know our history. Because in this day of Spring 1943, our survival was far from assured: refugees in a small village of Briançon with our mother and her parents, searching for Jewish families intensified. Our father was in England with three brothers from mother to continue the fight against the Nazis. We had to leave quickly to avoid being stuck with the consequences we all know, helped by some friends, including Lisette Langlois-Berthelot, now Mrs. Devinat. Mom had to urgently find a solution for us. She was able to contact a couple Alsatian who had joined the so-called free zone at the beginning of the war and settled in Arles, the city where we lived and where my father was a surgeon. He had also operated Camille Wiedrich shortly after his arrival in Arles. When friends were exposed to Wiedrich our situation is without hesitation that Noelle and Camille have agreed to hide ourselves for some time, while being fully aware of the risks. To everyone, we were their grandchildren, and my sister has changed his name Norge too easily identifiable to that of Rose. She was 3 years old, I was 5, and we stayed 2 years. Not only are our adopted grandparents have hidden, protected, educated, but beyond that, they gave us their unconditional love during these 2 years when our parents were not with us in this hostile environment where German soldiers and Gestapo were nearby, and everything could swing tragically. And then, in spring 1945, a jeep stopped in front of the porch of the farmhouse where we lived: a tall man in battle dress with his stripes as commander came down and rushed to take us into his arms. And my sister told her with a Alsatian accent cut with a knife, "Ponjour baba! norway and me but also all our descendants, Yad Vashem and thank all members who attended and supported our history to be made today this tribute to Christmas and Camille Wiedrich. Without them we would probably not there. Our grandparents of the war remained to the end and we are very pleased and honored that Helene Paquet and his family are here today to receive this medal on behalf of the righteous. " Granddaughter of the Righteous, Helene Paquet receive their diploma and medal from the hands of Laurent Mestre, Attaché, Embassy of Israel in Paris (DR). Speech by Patrick Bloche, mayor of the 11th: - "It is a source of great pride and deep emotion to welcome tonight at Town Hall in the 11th arrondissement, this ceremony Delivery of the Medal of the Righteous Among the Nations. Tonight, again, is the history of our country as we look across the street. Between 1940 and 1944, 76,000 Jews of French nationality or foreign, including 11,000 children, were deported from France. The result of this planned extermination of the Jews wanted this annihilation of all Jews is terrible: only 2,000 Jews deported from France among survive the hell of the camps. A few steps away, the Japy gymnasium was one of the places where we gathered the children, women and men, before deportation, including for the most part, they never returned. Two plaques are now displayed on the facade of the building. They invite passersby to gather and remember a horror perpetuated with the complicity of the Vichy police, leading to deportation and murder of people by the mere fact that they were Jewish. The tribute tonight Andrée Pasquier, Roland born, and posthumously to WIEDRICH Camille and his wife Anne, born GANTER called Noelle, is a tribute through time. He recalled that the time shall not erase: the atrocities as well as acts of bravery. And we must always remember that in the margins of the collaborationist zeal and cold lethargy of the masses, there were brave who resisted. And for this, the honor is a duty. These women and men, young or older, had the courage to oppose, even though the spirit of the time encouraged them to do everything otherwise. They form these discrete battalions of people who, to borrow the words of Joseph Kessel, "could well stand alone", but made a very different choice: to listen to their conscience. They then made gestures that fell to them, the obvious: they hid entertained, collected or fed and clothed those of Nazi barbarism, driven by blind hatred, wanted to exterminate all. These simple but that posed the greatest dangers are exemplary acts of resistance which we must remember. Also the medal awarded tonight Is the expression a will: enroll in indelible ink the names of those women and men who by their actions, bought our humanity. (...) the heart of a time when many doubted the values they had inherited, the evidence of things that did not stop the righteous move us. (...) Reading rescues performed by Camille and Noelle WIEDRICH then those made by Andrée PASQUIER emphasize the point that there were common in all these acts of resistance. For Camille and Noelle WIEDRICH for you and Andree PASQUIER there was no calculation, long hesitations to know what to do. You know the obvious respect for human rights and dignity of everyone. is our collective responsibility to do that, more than ever, this evidence can not be obliterated. " NB: We are grateful to Viviane Saul, Delegate of the French Committee for Yad Vashem, without whom page 268 that would have been so documented. .
