Mille jours de la vie d'un déporté qui a eu de la chance

Memoirs of a Jew born in 1915 in Warsaw. In 1926 the family moved to Paris. Woda received French citizenship in 1939; a sister and brother, who were born in France, were also naturalized. After his father's death in 1941, Woda stepped in to help his mother in the family's fur workshop. His mother, a sister, and his naturalized brother were arrested in the Vél d'Hiv roundup in 1942. All three were deported, separately, to Auschwitz soon after and killed. In September 1942 Woda was arrested and sent to Auschwitz; however, on the way, in Opole, he was selected for slave labor, which saved his life. For almost three years he survived working as an electrician in the labor camps in Mechtal, Klein Mangelsdorff, and Faulbrück, as well as in the concentration camps in Gross-Masselwitz and Langenbielau, all in Silesia. After the war he returned to Paris and continued his father's business. Another brother was arrested in November 1942 and killed in Auschwitz in March 1943. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)