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P. 249. Ceremony at Chelmsford (2)

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From left to right.: Regine Sigal, Delegate of the French Committee for Yad Vashem,
Planchou John Paul, Mayor of Chelmsford, Lawrence
Mestre, Attaché at the Embassy of Israel in France, Frederic
of Laurence, a former ambassador.
(Dr. V. Chelles / BCFYV / DR).

Henri-Joseph and Mary Degremont
Righteous Among the Nations

On page 243 this blog was announced the recognition ceremony posthumously Henry Joseph and Mary as Righteous Degremont. They have in effect protected the Holocaust and Joseph Liba Goldsztajn and their son Henry.

City Council and two delegates of the French Committee for Yad Vashem, Nicole Caminade and Regine had watched Sigal that this event leaves traces in the memories of light. Everything Contest. The quality of the speakers as well as sustained attention than moved to the public. The contribution of musicians from the Conservatory. The framework blossomed ...

Goldsztajn Henry and his father Joseph in 1944 (Dr. Arch. Fam. / Mt. BCFYV / DR).

Presentation of the Righteous by the Delegates of the French Committee:

- "We are gathered here tonight to honor the courage of this couple, who did not hesitate to threaten to hold, hide and save several Jewish families persecuted by the Nazis, including Joseph GOLDSZTAJN-Aron, his wife Liba and their son Henry.

Coming from Poland, Joseph Aron arrived in Paris in 1936. Joseph is a butcher by profession. He easily finds work and his wife and son Henry joined him in 1938. The family lives rue Julien Lacroix, in the 20th arrondissement, in a building adjacent to the butcher shop owned by it. Helen was born in early January 1940.

Engaged in September 1939 when a regiment of foreign volunteers, the father was demobilized in July l940 to Caussade, then sent to a camp Working in Marseille. With a certificate of employment provided by friends, he joined his family and managed to hide himself in Paris during the roundup of July 1942. That night, his wife saved his life and that of her children by taking the risk of not meeting the beating on the door by the Germans.

To protect them, while parents put their children in Villepinte. A little later they spend in the free zone with their son, leaving Helena with her nurse.
In November 1942, the free zone is being invaded. They then go back to Paris where they learned that several Jewish families were hidden from Coudreaux district of Chelsea.

Thus, the end of 1943, they arrived in that house already DEGREMONT Jews but who do not hesitate to welcome them. They will be able to live in safety until the liberation, while several other families have complained arrested and deported. Their names appear on the monument erected in front of City Hall, with those of the Martyrs of the Cascade du Bois de Boulogne and hostages shot.

reports of Degremont and GOLDSZTAJN are so warm that the parents decide to give them their daughter Helen, at the end of hostilities, during a year. "

Having -law of the Righteous, their nephew, Jacques Langlois, receive their diploma from the hands of Laurent Mestre, Attaché, Embassy of Israel in France (Dr. V. Chelles / BCFYV / DR ).

From left r.. : Regine Sigal, CF for Yad Vashem; Helen Gutowski, hidden child, John Paul Planchou, Mayor of Chelmsford (Dr. V. Chelles / BCFYV / DR).

Helen Gutowski-Goldsztajn had wanted to make the trip from Argentina to show its appreciation to spouses Degremont, the ones who prevented the Holocaust to bring his parents and brother.
's testimony that another child was hidden intersected with the new folder Yad Vashem Righteous and proposed on page 243 of this blog.

NOTE: We are grateful to the City of Chelles, Gutowsi Helena, Jenny Laneurie well as delegates of the French Committee for Yad Vashem, Nicole Caminade and Regine Sigal for their invaluable contributions to pages 243 and 249 .

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