Amazing post from (thank you Lisa for the link) Promised Land blog – Prove that you are alive. Yad Vashem lists Henri Fogelman from Radom as dead in Auschwitz. The blogger, his grandson, writes:
“All the details in the Yad Vashem database are accurate, except one: my grandfather didn’t make it to the death camp – he jumped from the train somewhere along the way. In fact, he was deported again to Auschwitz, and again he managed to escape. Later on, he came to Israel to fight in the 48′ war, where he met my grandmother. The marriage didn’t work out, and after a few years Henry went back to live in Argenteuil, a northwestern suburb of Paris. He died in 2000. Here is a picture of him with my grandmother in one of his visits to Israel.
As it turned out, my mother contacted Yad Vashem sometime ago and pointed out the mistake. She was asked to present proof that her father did in fact escape from transport 48.
“I am the proof,” said my mother.
Apparently, that wasn’t enough, and she gave up on the whole thing.
I don’t know what my grandfather would have thought about his name appearing among the other family members who were murdered in Auschwitz. As for me, I kind of prefer the entry to stay as it is.”
Speaking about bureaucracy… There is photo of Henri Fogelman on Noam Sheizaf’s blog.
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