When Paris’s Hotel Lutetia hosted concentration camp survivors • FRANCE 24 English

Eighty years ago, on January 27, 1945, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp was liberated by Soviet troops. During the following weeks and months, French survivors of the camps made their way home. A third of them passed through the Hotel Lutetia in Paris, a luxury hotel that was requisitioned by the French state to host the former prisoners. Many families went to the Lutetia, desperately hoping to find out if their loved ones had returned. FRANCE 24’s Stéphanie Trouillard and Claire Paccalin spoke to survivors of the camps who passed through the hotel, as well as the daughter of a man who perished in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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5 comments
  1. Pimping the $chmolocau$t, again. No mention of what The Poor Jews got up to during Stalinism, the most murderous tyranny in recorded history courtesy of Lazar Kaganovich, Jakub Berman, Salomon Morel, Béla Kun, Mátyás Rákosi, Lev Bronstein, Helena Wolińska-Brus, Ana Pauker, Grigory Zinoviev. . .

  2. May God bless them with His mercy and grace. They will be accepted in the Kingdom on High. But the oppressors, the murderers will be judged by God.

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