The former doctor, born in 1929 in Poland, lived in a Lodz ghetto in 1940, before being deported with his family to Auschwitz. He died at the age of 93.
Le Monde
The former deportee and great witness to the Shoah, Elie Buzyn, died, learned Le Monde from his family, Monday, May 23. “Until the end he brought the floor of the victims of Nazi barbarism. (…) His memory obliges us,” immediately praised Francis Kalifat , the president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF) on Twitter.
Huge witness to the Shoah and tireless Memory Combatant Elijah Buzyn, left us. Just at the end Il A Por… https://t.co/a64zxtkxa
– Franciskalifat (@Francis kalifat)
Born January 7, 1929 in Lodz, Poland, father of the former Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, Elie Buzyn was 93 years old. At the beginning of March 1940, he saw his brother Avram, eleven years older, being executed by the Nazis. A month earlier, a decree had forced the Jews to leave their apartments and occupy a dilapidated city district but, not having obeyed fairly quickly, three young people, taken at random, had been executed publicly. Avram was one of them.
In the summer of 1944, the young Elie was then deported with his parents and sister to Auschwitz. He will be the only survivor. Having become a doctor, he made himself, years later, a great witness to the Holocaust, having an enduring, until his death, to maintain collective memory.