Marcel Bernheim was born in Colmar on August 22, 1922.
He lived in Strasbourg, where he worked as a foreman for Jacques Bernheim, who owned the “L'Atméga” toy factory.
At the start of the war, the factory was evacuated to Orléans, where it continued to operate. Later, the factory was Aryanized and Marcel joined his parents.
His parents were expelled from Colmar when the Germans arrived, first rounded up at the psychiatric hospital in Rouffach, from where they were loaded onto trucks and transported to the demarcation line. They were abandoned on a meadow near Dôle. They were then taken into the care of the official organization in charge of refugees from Alsace. They lived in Ruffey-sur-Seille in the Jura. Marcel found work as a farmhand in Villevieux.[1]
Marcel was deported to Auschwitz on July 18, 1943 on convoy no. 57.
After his business was sequestered, Uncle Jacques and his family took refuge in the south of France. He was deported, along with his aunt Suzanne, cousins Nicole and Gaston, grandparents and aunts and uncles.
Only Nicole returned from Auschwitz.
She emigrated to the United States to live with a relative.
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