The Taiber House youth center in Givatayim will host a special talk with Holocaust survivor Colette Hazan in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day Wednesday.
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Born in Cannes in Southern France in 1939, Hazan was just 18 months old when authorities there began to arrest Jews without French citizenship. It was then that Hazan's Polish father was arrested and sent to a death camp. When Hazan was 3 years old, her mother had gone on a short visit to visit her aunt. Her mother had planned to return to Cannes by train but she was arrested along with other Jews that had been at the station with and sent to Auschwitz and to their deaths.
Hazan and her brother then went to stay with their grandparents. A Christian family agreed to hide Hazan, her brother, and her grandparents in their home. Later, that family would change Colette's and her brother's last name to theirs and smuggled them across the Spanish border. Her grandparents feared the children would be taken, and through the church, made contact with a Christian family living on a farm on the Spanish border that helped hide Jewish children. Hazan and her brother would remain in hiding on the farm for years until the end of the war when they were reunited with the grandparents.
Hazan's story will be broadcast on the Israel Hayom website at 7:30 p.m. in Israel or 4:30 p.m. GMT.
At 6:00 p.m., Israel Hayom will broadcast a rally for Holocaust survivors that will mark the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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