Regine Miller (F / Belgium, 1932), Holocaust survivor
Regine Miller (F / Belgium, 1932), Holocaust survivor.
- <Hidden Children>
- Memoirs Tell no one who you are, by Walter Buchignani (1994)
Biography
Regine Miller was born in 1932 in Belgium. Early morning of 1942, Leon had been taken away by the gearman solder. A few month later Regine father deside that it would not be safe for her to stay so he send her to live with a old woman who was Madame Andre. Regine was send to camp to live with Monsieur, Madane Carpentier who has two children who was Jean,Marie. Later in 1945 Regine was send to live with Sylvieand Pierre Wathieus who was kind to her.
At age of 18 she married a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp and went on to have two children. In 1958 , the family immigrated to Canada where Regine worked as an editorial assistant and translator in Montreal. She live there to this day.
Book : Tell no one who you are, by Walter Buchignani (1994)
- Walter Buchignani, Tell no one who you are: The hidden childhood of Régine Miller (Montreal : Tundra Books, 1994)
"Régine Miller's childhood memories of the persecution of her family and other Jews living in Belgium during World War II, when the Germans invaded. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, secondary ... During the days of Nazi terror in Europe, many Jewish children were taken from their families and hidden. Régine Miller was one such child, who left her mother, father, and brother when she was 10 years old. Utterly alone as she is shunted from place to place, told to tell no one she is Jewish, she hears that her mother and brother have been taken by the SS, the German secret police. Only her desperate hope that her father will return sustains her. At war’s end she must learn to live with the terrible truth of “the final solution,” the Nazi’s extermination camps ... The people who sheltered Régine cover a wide spectrum of human types, ranging from callous to kind, fearful to defiant, exploitive to caring. This is a story of a brave girl and an equally brave woman to tell the story so many years later."--Publisher description.