New book reveals tens of thousands of Jews who survived WW2 were not allowed to return to homes in French capital
The 1935 photograph shows Israël and Hélène Malowanczyk standing on the balcony of their second-floor apartment at 118 Avenue Parmentier in Paris’s 11th arrondissement.
The couple – he a hatmaker from Poland, she a French dressmaker – are smiling. Like almost all Parisians at the time, they rented their home, a two-room flat where they lived with their two young daughters.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/01/no-one-but-jews-lost-their-apartments-how-homes-taken-by-nazis-in-wartime-paris-were-never-given-back
Author : Kim Willsher in Paris
Publish date : 2025-02-01 11:00:41
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