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Eva Tichauer

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Eva Tichauer
Born26 January 1918
Died19 December 2018(2018-12-19) (aged 100)
NationalityGerman
OccupationDoctor

Eva Tichauer (26 January 1918 – 19 December 2018) was a German Jewish doctor and Holocaust survivor.

Biography

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Eva Tichauer was born on 26 January 1918 in Berlin.[1][2] She was the daughter of Theodore Tichauer and Erna Tichauer. Theodore Tichauer was a lawyer. In July 1933, the Tichauer family took refuge from the Nazi Germans in France.[3] The Popular Front (1936–1938) is in power in France. The family became naturalized in 1937. When Philippe Pétain took office, they were stripped of their French nationality.[4]

Deportation

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Theodore Tichauer was arrested in December 1941. He was deported to Auschwitz. Eva Tichauer was 24 years old when she was arrested with her mother Erna in the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, in July 1942.[5] They were interned in Drancy and subsequently deported to Auschwitz.Tichauer survived the Shoah.

In January 1945, Tichauer was part of the death march to Ravensbrück. The guards abandoned the prisoners with the advance of the Russian troops, and the Russians liberated them on 23 April 1945.[6]

Return to France

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Eva Tichauer was released by the Red Army and repatriated by the Americans. She returned to Paris on 18 May 1945.[7]

Medical Doctor

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Before being deported, Eva Tichauer began her medical studies in 1937.[8] On her return from deportation, she was alone, homeless and penniless. She managed to finish her medical studies. She joined the Ministry of National Education and became head of the departments of Manche and Gironde.

Argenteuil

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In the 1970s, she moved to Argenteuil. She ended her career as head of the health office, after living in Nanterre. She was the Honorary Chief Inspector of Health 12.[9][10][11]

Policy

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Tichauer was a member of the French Communist Party from her freedom from the Nazis until 1995.

Works

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  • J'étais le numéro 20832 à Auschwitz. L’Harmattan (1992)
  • Grâce à mes yeux bleus, j'ai survécu. Les impliqués (2017)

References

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  1. ^ "Portrait d'Eva Tichauer". Musée de la Resistance.
  2. ^ "Oral history interview with Eva Tichauer". United States Memorial Holocaust Museum. 1993.
  3. ^ "J'étais le numéro 20832 à Auschwitz". Editions L'Harmittan (in French). 1 June 1992.
  4. ^ "Eva Tichauer ? Une rayonnante femme de l'ombre. Rescapée des camps d'extermination nazis, elle n'a cessé de raconter l'horreur. Sobrement. À l'image de ses engagements, notamment politiques". Portraits d'Argenteuillais (in French). Archived from the original on 2018-04-29. Retrieved 2018-12-29.
  5. ^ "Les 13.000 martyrs du Vél'd'Hiv". L'Humanité (in French). 9 June 1993.
  6. ^ "7.2.3. Les gazages à Birkenau". Encyclopédie (in French). Archived from the original on 2018-05-02. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  7. ^ Tichauer, Eva (2017). Grâce à mes yeux bleus, j'ai survécu: Récit (in French). Les Impliqués éditeur. ISBN 978-2343121734. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  8. ^ "Department of French and Italian, Northwestern University. Rotschild: Escapes And Resistance, p. 1". Northwestern University. Archived from the original on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2018-12-29.
  9. ^ "Un site Internet fait le lien entre sionistes radicaux et extrême droite". Le Monde (in French). 22 August 2002.
  10. ^ "Lettre Ouvre au Crif". CAPJPO - EuroPalestine (in French). 17 September 2002. Archived from the original on 29 April 2018. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  11. ^ "Procès houleux autour d'un site Internet extrémiste". LeParisien (in French). 1 October 2003.