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In Lille (Nord), for the first time, paving stones of memory were sealed last May during a ceremony in tribute to Jews from Lille deported in 1942. Their names were engraved in front of the last homes of these victims of the Nazism.
Golden paving stones have been fixed in the ground to anchor names in the collective memory. That day in the center of Lille (North), stones covered with brass are placed in front of the last home of the Teichler family. These French of Polish origin are part of the Jews exterminated by the Nazis. In July 1942, Bernard Teichler and his 10-year-old daughter Micheline followed a smuggler. “They thought they were going to the free zone and in fact they were betrayed, taken to prison and when the doors opened, it was the German soldiers who were on the other side”says Dominique Lesur, president of the Lille-Fives 1942 association.
Better understand the Holocaust
Bernard and his daughter are then deported to the Auschwitz camp. They will be assassinated by the Nazis before the end of 1942. Present at the ceremony, Bernard Teichler’s grandson himself rediscovered the history of his family with these paving stones. A class of high school students studied the fate of the Teichlers. This particular story gave them a better understanding of the Holocaust. The cobblestones were created by a German artist.