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Chitenay City Hall (DR).
The Righteous
Sylvine Girault and
Renee White Grillet
On 4 July 2010, Vote Righteous Among the Nations were discounts - posthumously - to the rights holders Sylvine Giraul and Renee White Grillet. The ceremony was part of the City Chitenay. She had been prepared by the Mayor, Didier Pigasse Stetten, and by the Delegate of the French Committee for Yad Vashem, Didier Cerf.
Renee White Grillet was represented by his son, Gerard. While Sylvia Girault was not his child Lucette Chauveau, Mireille Choquet, Bernard Girault, Madelaine Guellier and Anne-Marie Pinault.
Summary File Yad Vashem:
- "Chaim Fizicki had found political asylum in France. He had fled Poland and hoped to complete its host biology studies. His path crosses that of another Polish refugee with whom he marries. To cope with the necessities of life, it becomes a tailor while she became a seamstress at home.
The home (in Nancy) is growing thanks to two births:
- Ilicz in 1933 and
- Claire in 1935.
Nancy to be "Germanized" because of war and defeat, Family Fizicki take the road of exodus. First to Bordeaux. Then to Libourne. Finally, in 1941, they reached Civray in Vienna where they were arrested in July.
manage to escape the persecution. But alas, a year later, in September 1942, the mother was again arrested. She was transferred to Drancy where she will be deported - no return - to Auschwitz.
A serious illness has prevented the father suffer the same fate. His condition made him intransportable. He decides and in emergencies, to place two children in families with Chitenay (Loir et Cher) with the help of a relative force itself in the rescue of children.
Illicz is entrusted to Ms. Grillet and Ms. Claire Girault. The teacher - who was also town clerk - and his wife provide false identity papers for children. Both are baptized not to arouse suspicion (but they will recover their original religion after the Liberation).
The husband of Renee White-Grillet was a prisoner in Germany. The couple had a son, Gerard. Illicz was treated with perfect equality with the young Grillet. The two boys were helping with farm chores, caring for animals, etc..
Girault As for Sylvia, she was a widow with five kids to support! The family was really poor. Ms. Girault cleaned houses and helped harvest the fruit farms. This woman is as generous as brave as the sixth Claire greeted the children in his family.
the Liberation, Chaim had joined the army regular. The war finally ended, he came to seek her children orphaned from their dead mother in Auschwitz. "
The New Republic:
- "Sunday, late morning, time was the emotion on the Town Hall Square, Mayor Didier Stetten Pigasse-hosted a whole series of individuals and families put to honor, came to attend the celebration of an exceptional event. An unusual moment in a atmosphere where the emotion was palpable as two medals were awarded to two Righteous Castanéens posthumously.
It Didier Cerf, regional delegate of the French Committee for Yad Vashem, which will give the children and Sylvia White Grillet Girault Medal of the Righteous Among the Nations. A distinction awarded by the Yad Vashem Institute of Jerusalem to non-Jews who saved Jews during the occupation, risking their lives. The Bravery Blanche Grillet, represented by his son Gerard and Sylvia Girault, represented by her children, Lucette Chauveau, Mireille Choquet, Bernard Girault, Madelaine Guellier, Anne-Marie Pinault have been raised through the reading by the great-grandchildren. A particularly moving moment for Claire and Leon, two Jewish children gathered at the ceremony by two French families.
Philip Reeve Galli, MP Nicolas Perruchot, Senator Jacqueline Gourault have alternately praised the courage of those who risked their lives to save others. Finally, "The Song of the Partisans" was played by the offspring Girault and recovery in chorus by all the guests. "
(July 7, 2010).
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