"Parcours"
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Pierre Saragoussi
Biographical History
Pierre Saragoussi was born in Paris on 24 November 1937, the second child of Bitty and Allegre (nee Yomtov) Saragoussi, who had immigrated to France from Saloniki, Greece during the 1920s. His father worked as a merchant in Paris, and the family lived in an apartment in the XVIII arrondissement. With the outbreak of war in 1939, his father joined the Foreign Legion, but returned to Paris after the French defeat and demobilization. The family was arrested during a raid in late 1941, but a neighbor, Mme. Caron, sought out the family and sought the release of Pierre and his sister, Eddy. Mme. Caron managed to hide the children durnig the remainder of the German occupation, but their parents were deported to Auschwitz, where they perished.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Pierre Saragoussi
Pierre Saragoussi donated a copy of his memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014.
Scope and Content
Consists of one typed memoir, approximately 30 pages, entitled "Parcours," written in November 2012 by Pierre Saragoussi. In the memoir, Mr. Saragoussi describes his family's pre-war lives in Paris. During the war, he and his sister were cared for by the Caron, Guyollot, and Namias families, who hid the children as Catholics in Appoigny, France, during the war.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Pierre Saragoussi
People
- Saragoussi, Pierre, 1937-
Subjects
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--France.
- Jews--Conversion to Christianity.
- Paris (France)
- Appoigny (France)
- Catholics--France.
- Hidden children (Holocaust)--France.
- 18e Arrondissement (Paris, France)
- Dinard (France)
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--France.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Personal Narratives.
- Document