Esrail Liliane

Born­ on June 9th, 1924 in Biarritz.­

­Arrested­ on January 10th, 1944 in Biarritz with her two brothers aged 13 and 17. The three children were orphans and had been brought up by their grandparents. They had a Jewish ancestor but were not considered as Jewish according to the Vichy racial laws. Interned in Bayonne, then Bordeaux and Drancy.­

­Deported­ to Auschwitz Birkenau on February 3rd, 1944. Registration number: 75127. Her two younger brothers were gassed upon arrival. She endured both Birkenau and Auschwitz camps. After the Death March, she was interned in the camps of Ravensbrück and Neustadt-Glewe in Germany.­

­Liberated­ on May 2nd, 1945 in Neustadt-Glewe.­

­When she returned­ to Biarritz at the end of May 1945, she was reunited with her grandmother.