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{fr} David Perlmutter. Une enfance à nulle autre pareille (2019)

• See David Perlmutter (M / Poland, 1937), Holocaust survivor

Abstract

"As early as 1994, the late Jorge Semprun wrote in his book THE WRITING OR THE LIFE that one day, relatively close, there will be no survivors of Buchenwald to say and tell in a direct way, this what was survival in a Nazi concentration camp. Today, almost 25 years later, this book is one of the last testimonies, if not perhaps the last, to bring together personal memories as well as facts told by reliable adults, of a Jewish child who survived years in the ghetto, then a labor camp, finally, a concentration camp, and who was released at just 8 years old."

"Dès 1994, le regretté Jorge Semprun écrivait dans son livre L'ECRITURE OU LA VIE qu'un jour, relativement proche, il n'y aura plus aucun survivant de Buchenwald pour dire et raconter d'une manière directe, ce qu'a été la survie dans un camp de concentration nazi. Aujourd'hui, presque 25 ans après, ce livre est un des derniers témoignages, sinon peut-être le dernier, à rassembler des souvenirs personnels ainsi que des faits racontés par des adultes dignes de foi, d'un enfant juif qui a survécu à des années de ghetto, puis d'un camp de travail, enfin, d'un camp de concentration, et qui a été libéré à tout juste 8 ans."

About the Author

David Perlmutter (b.1937) was born on 8 April 1937 in Lodz. Grew up in the Lodz Ghetto. Deported to Buchenwald. He was one the youngest child Holocaust survivors at Buchenwald. At the OSE orphanage in France, David formed a strong bound with Yisrael Meir Lau and Izio Rosenman. David would remain in France all his life.