@AuschwitzMuseum (1/n) Zahri, or Salmin, wife of Isaac, born 16-03-1898. They emigrated to Paris in 1935 and had 4 children. In Paris 2 other children were born:
> Andre📷, born 27-05-1927
> Rene📷, born 02-03-1929
> Raymond born 01-07-1931
> Max Paul (1935)
> Nelly (1938)
> Pierre (1940)
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@AuschwitzMuseum (2/n) One of the anti Jewish rules in France was that when Jews were standing in a line for a shop they were obliged to let Non-Jews to get before them in the line. 😠This would often led to Jews not being able to buy anything at all.
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@AuschwitzMuseum (3/n) Zahri, worried about her family, didn't accept this rule. One day a woman demanded to get in front of her, but she refused. A few days later she heard that the woman informed the authorities and they would come and arrest her.
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@AuschwitzMuseum (4/n) She went to her acquaintance, the priest Eugène Charlet, for help. He promised to look after the three youngest children who were at a kindergarten belonging to the church.
She then hurried home to get the older children from school, but she was too late.😢
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@AuschwitzMuseum (5/n) They were already waiting for her.
She was 'arrested' with her 3 oldest children and deported to Drancy and on 02-09-1943 to Auschwitz.
Isaac📷 was later also 'arrested' and on 03-02-1944 deported to Auschwitz. 😢
None of the deported family members survived!😢
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@AuschwitzMuseum (6/n) Priest Charlet heard of the arrest and took the 3 youngest children to priest André Funé📷who took them to his home. He and his wife Alice📷, a nurse, ran a home for underprivileged children, Jewish and non-Jewish, together with their 14 year old daughter, Jeanne.
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@AuschwitzMuseum (7/n) Jeanne gave special attention to Nelly and Marc Paul, looking after them personally and teaching them to read and write.
The three children survived the war and on 11-11-2008, André, Alice and Jeanne Funé were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations.
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@AuschwitzMuseum (8/8) The Fune family had 25 children, Jewish and none-Jewish, at their home.
Pierre wrote a book about their lives called 'La mémoire déverrouillée'. I think it's only published in French.
Poor Zahri, we will remember you, your husband and your 3 children. 😢💔🕯️✡️
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