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Invitation to the ceremony June 22, 2010, Town Hall 13th ar. Paris (DR).
Paul and Augustine Fiket
Righteous Among the Nations
Medal and Diploma of Righteous Among the Nations were awarded to Andre Fiket, son of two righteous dead, this June 22, 2010 . The ceremony was held at the Mairie of the 13th arrondissement of Paris at the invitation of the Mayor, Jerome Coumet, the responsible Assistant and the Memory of the World contestant, Catherine Vieu-Sharia and the French Committee for Yad Vashem, which had delegated Vivian Saul and Alain Habif.
Summary File Yad Vashem:
- "Moses Rabinovici was arrested as a Jew and interned in the camp of Beaune-la-Rolande, Loiret. Then transferred to Drancy, he was swept away by train No. 53 to Sobibor where he died March 30, 1943.
His wife, Gitel Chaja Rabinovici, born Kornfeld, found refuge in the 13th arrondissement. Indeed, accompanied by her mother, Liba Kornfeld, she was greeted by Paul and Augustine Fiket (nee Conrath) at 113 Avenue d'Ivry in Paris. Why
knocking on the door of Fiket?
of Croatian descent, Paul Fiket was a fellow employee of Moses Rabinovici. Both were metal workers. "
Suite synthesis:
- "Paul and Augustine Fiket were fully aware of risking their lives by hiding racial persecution. They acted out of humanity, of compassion and friendship.
Rabinovici The couple had a son, Simon. Upon the arrest of his father Moses, the baby was given to peasants Mercatel in the Pas-de-Calais.
In 1944, Augustine Fiket went up north to withdraw the child and his cousin, Armand Finkelberg, hidden there too.
Grandmother Liba Kornfeld, mother Gitel Chaja Rabinovici, Simon's son and cousin Armand Finkelberg thus escaped the Holocaust ...
Until his death in 1970, Simon's mother was eager to maintain contacts with Fiket husband and their three children. "
Portrait of Paul and Augustine Fiket (Arch. Fam. / BCFYV / DR).
Extract from the presentation of Yad Vashem:
- "Created by an act of the Israeli Parliament in 1953, the Yad Vashem is named after a verse of chapter 56 of Isaiah in the Bible. It says: "And I will give in my house and within my walls a memorial (YAD), and a name (CHEM), Hebrew Yad Vashem (the memorial and name), which will never fade.
This sentence tribute to the Righteous among the Nations that the Institute is designed to identify. It is engraved on the front of each medal on behalf of the State of Israel and as a sign of gratitude.
On the back it is marked "Whoever saves one life, saves the entire universe, "extracted from the Talmud" oral law ".
The Yad Vashem memorial, located on Memorial Hill in Jerusalem therefore aims to perpetuate the memory of six million Jews from 21 countries in Europe under the domination of the Third Reich and who were exterminated by the Nazis and their accomplices. In France, 76,000 Jews were deported, including 11,000 children, only 2,550 survivors returned from the death camps and no child was among them. However, three quarters of the Jews in France have been spared. "
Presentation of Yad Vashem and the French Committee by Viviane Saul Commissioner (Dr. V. Saul / BCFYV / DR).
Yad Vashem and the Righteous (Continued):
- "Those who survived owe to men and women who are not Jews, listening only to their conscience, hid them, protected them and saved them from certain death. Famous or anonymous, these heroes were of all ages and all backgrounds, all religious and political affiliations and all walks of life.
These men and women of honor have in common is respect for moral values, the rejection of fascism and the courage to act despite the deadly risks involved. These strangers who have received required nothing at the time and demand no longer exists, they felt they had done their duty, it is naturally and easily they came in front of people at risk. They have hosted, hidden, fed, were often obtained false papers, and have made for them all their energy and imagination at a time when it was not cool to attend the Jews, let alone help, while the majority of the population was at best indifferent or passive. Righteous these have not only saved lives, but they also embodied the honor of humanity, who through them has not totally sunk in Auschwitz.
plucking the Jews in the Holocaust was not only an addition of individual acts but also extraordinary and sometimes much more rarely, the result of collective actions.
is why Yad Vashem also recognized as Righteous Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (France), the village of Nieuwlande (Netherlands), the network Zegota (Poland) and the Kingdom of Denmark for its network of resistance.
In a world where speech acts of hatred and xenophobia, antisemitism and demonization of Israel is progressing, the recall values What embodied in the Just yesterday, we remind our responsibilities today: Defending the values of justice and peace. Intolerance, racism can be the basis for any society is all around us in the world these principles are used by dictatorial powers, or so-called democratic by sectarian groups or fundamentalists to justify arrests, killings and genocide. "
- Armand Finkenberg, hidden child,
- Fiket Andrew, son of the righteous with their Diploma,
- Simon Rabinovici, hidden child.
(Dr. V. Saul / BCFYV / DR).
Excerpt from speech by Catherine Vieu-Charier, Assistant:
- "70 years ago in the defeat of France, Nazi barbarity which had planned since 1933 the implementation of the final solution for Jews, will put our country on the road, with the active complicity of the Vichy government.
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In France itself, the country of the Enlightenment and human rights, values Republic, the country where so many men have written and thought the intelligence of humanity, the power is disgraced Vichy, setting October 3, 1940, the grim status of Jews, which excludes almost all functions.
The Jews of France were hit hard in their love for France by that state anti-Semitism in a country that is in 1791, granted them the rights of citizens.
foreign Jews who had chosen the country of which it was said that there was as happy as God in France are devastated.
All love their country passionately. They fought for him in 1914 or 1939. Yet Petain, the victor of Verdun, disgraces himself accompanying this policy of death, and even ahead of the desires of the Nazi occupiers.
There is the shame of the first deportation train, March 27, 1942. There is the German order of 7 June with the unthinkable and shameful sign of the yellow star.
And then, on 16 and 17 July, the roundup of the Vel d'Hiv will bring hundreds of families to death, the plates affixed to the schools in Paris gives the magnitude of the disaster.
The same horror takes place from August 26 to 28, with the roundup of thousands of foreign Jews in unoccupied France. "
Suite of Speech:
- "But in France starving, terrorized and cut in two by the demarcation line, there are voices, people do not. The French men and women in very Many will show that the values of humanism are rooted in their hearts. Everywhere they receive, conceal, save at the peril of their lives of children, women, men, persecuted because they are Jews.
In this waking nightmare which the Jews have lived since 1940, France, their France, which they believed so intensely, has not quite disappeared. In the depths of the people, a glimmer of hope shines. She is fragile, but it exists.
Thousands of women and men, without question, will make the choice of courage. They come from all social classes, in all professions, all political and religious currents. Everyone knows the risks: denunciation, arrest by the Gestapo, the militia, sometimes by the gendarmerie and police. Interrogations and torture followed by a firing squad or deportation. But
thousand shares, small or large, they will hide and protect from death of hundreds of thousands of Jews.
Some were recognized Righteous Among the Nations. Many others remain anonymous, because it is so, life is returning, people are modest and he also took time to revisit these events. Some are honored as today, with the spouses Fiket almost 70 years later. "
NB: This page is based on contributions Vivian Saul, Delegate, she is thanked.
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