“Elijah Buzyn, a Holocaust survivor, died Monday morning at the age of 93. It is a grieving Agnès Buzyn who announced the death of her father Elie Buzyn this Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at theAFP. “He felt unwell yesterday (Sunday) evening just after a testimony conference, where he was with young people to “pass the baton”, a conference, which was very moving, very moving, which touched him a lot”, added the former Minister of Health.
Elie Buzyn, father of Agnès Buzyn and former survivor of the Auschwitz camp
Born on January 7, 1929 in Łódź in Poland, Elie Buzyn was one of the survivors of the Auschwitz camp where he was arrested in 1944 in the Jewish ghetto of Łódź where his family was penned. He was only 15 years old. He then arrived in France in 1956 at the age of 27 where he studied medicine to become an orthopedic surgeon. Medicine is also a path followed by her daughter, Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Health from 2017 to 2020.
Elie Buzyn thus leaves his wife Etty Wrobel, psychologist, psychoanalyst and writer, as well as grandchildren: Alexandre Lévy, Lucas Veil and Raphael Veil, the three children of Agnès Buzyn born respectively from her respective unions with the doctor Yves Lévy and lawyer Pierre-Jean Veil.
Jean Castex’s strong tribute to Elie Buzyn
Former Prime Minister Jean Castex, who resigned on Monday May 16, 2022, paid tribute to Elie Buzyn on Twitter this Tuesday, May 24: “I bow to the memory of Elie Buzyn. I remember with great emotion his last visit to Auschwitz, on January 28, where he agreed to accompany us and testify. He made us feel the horror of the unthinkable and communicated his strength and his courage… I am thinking of Elie Buzyn, his family and all the victims of the Holocaust.”, he said in a press release. The President of the Council representative of Jewish institutions (Crif), Francis Kalifat, also has the memory of Elie Buzyn on Twitter : “Immense witness to the Holocaust and tireless fighter for memory Élie Buzynleft us. “Until the end, he carried the word of the victims of Nazi barbarism”he pointed out.