Warsaw and Paris
On August 15, 1930, Liliana, nicknamed Lilka, was born.
The only child of a wealthy family, his father was a wholesale trader and his mother a teacher.
From her Jewish childhood, Liliana confides that she has only meager memories of religious holidays.
On September 1, 1939, Poland was invaded by the Wehrmacht.
Liliana's father, optimistic, clings to this country where he was born, while his wife predicts the funeral fate reserved for the Jews.
Serious, Liliana evokes the "
arrogant and proud
" look of the Germans who enter her town.
It is barely celebrating its tenth candle when the Nazis park the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto on October 12, 1940.
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