NARRATIVE – On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the release of the Auschwitz camp, where they were deported, Yvette Lévy and Judith Elkan-Hervé told their Calvary. At 98, they are among the last survivors of the Shoah.
“Imagine what it was to wear it every day”. The look full of challenge, Yvette Lévy gets up from her chair and brandishes a yellow star. The same one who, more than 80 years earlier, was sewn on his clothes, to signify his Judeity. The very one who sent her to the concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, in July 1944, by the last convoy from the Drancy internment camp. At the Shoah Memorial in Paris, where 150 people gathered to listen to his testimony, silence fell at once. Everyone is silent, admiring, in front of this woman who, at 98, still finds the strength to tell the horror after having escaped, 80 years earlier, to the greatest massacre in history.
Hugues Maillot
Sitting next to her, Judith Elkan-Hervé had just been questioned by an auditor on the importance of testimony. “I am soon 99 years old, the names of those I love, of those who suffered, it is only me who remember me”souffle…
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