Rohatyn Léa

Born­ on March 20th, 1925 in Tinqueux near Reims. Her father’s parents had emigrated from Russia.­

­Arrested­ on January 27th, 1944 in Tinqueux with her parents and her 11 brothers and sisters. They were all interned in the Reims prison then in Drancy.­

­Deported­ to Auschwitz Birkenau on February 3rd, 1944 with the other 13 members of her family. Registration number: 75161. Léa and Suzanne, her sister were the only ones to enter the camp. They stayed together during the entire period of their deportation. Léa endured the Birkenau camp then the Auschwitz camp until its evacuation on January 18th, 1945. The Death March took her to the camps of Ravensbrück, then Malchow and Leipzig in Germany.­

­Liberated­ in Leipzig in April 1945.­

­When she returned­ with her older sister, she was reunited with one of her brothers, the only one who hadn’t been deported. Her parents and 10 of her brothers and sisters were assassinated in Birkenau.