Michel Slitinsky
Michel Slitinsky (born in 1925 in Bordeaux) is resulting from an Jewish family of Ielisavetgrad, small town of Ukraine between Kiev and Odessa of with dimensions of his/her father and Tcherniguov of with dimensions of his/her mother.
Biography
Pursued in 1942 by Papon, at the 17 years age, it enters in clandestinity and integrates a resistance network which will carry out it in the maquis of Auvergne (M.U.R). Dice the Release, it will not have of cease to reconstitute the history of Resistance in the Gironde, collecting testimonys and documents consigned in two works appeared into 69 and 72. Its research active and impassioned makes a self-educated Historian of it. Its investigations will carry out it has to establish the responsibility for Papon in the deportation of the Jews of Bordeaux. It will devote 4 books, nouveau riches of new documents on this subject. Carry word of the civil Parts, it will attend all the audiences of the lawsuit Papon (6 months) and will intervene meadows of 5:00 to the bar; the President of the Court, Castagnéde judge, impressed by his power of research will recognize before the Court that Slitinsky with carried out a double instruction. Its name remains attached to the business Maurice Papon.
A family of Russian emigrants
His/her father Abraham Slitinsky and all the Jewish community live in the obsession of tsarism inquisitor. It is indeed the time of the pogroms which develop in Ukraine, with the intervention of the Cossacks. The family decides into 1912 to leave the country and to gain France, “Ground of Freedoms” and to settle in Paris. Actually the parents and grandparents resign themselves to remain, only the children exile themselves.Part of the emigrants will join Argentina. A cousin of Michel Slitinsky will become senior of the Faculty of Law (he will be assassinated by the fascists of Perôn) and a cousin senior of the medical college, (specialist otolaryngologist laryngologist, it was called regularly in European conferences). One finds also a lawyer and a singer of opera. The family which has Ground properties of fire will become after the war antenna of the Iberian Institute of professor Solomon.
Abraham works in an arms factory and will be in 1916, during the First World War, one of the rare voluntary taxpayers to pour gold for National defense. It meets in this important Jewish colony residing in the Vincennes-Montreuil sector his future wife Esther Eterstein, originating in Kiev. She works as dressmaker with the Lafayette Galleries.
Shortly after the end of the First World War, they settle in Bordeaux and open a store of American surplus course of Yser.
Are born at six years from interval Alice (1919) and Michel (1925). Abraham decides to create an association which will come to assistance of the immigrants of the East, which is entitled Société of Fraternity Jew, the statutes are deposited in 1920. It is promoted president and is surrounded by many friends of which Stolpner, Sandler, Pryvis, Cypel, Gaykine and Alitenssi.
Abraham Slitinsky will be raid on order of Maurice Papon, off-set in October 1942 and gauze with Auschwitz. Esther, his wife, will remain hidden during three years in a cellar in Bordeaux. Michel Slitinsky, 17 years, will have just time to flee by the roofs during the night arrest of his family. Sought by the services of Papon, it will enter at once in clandestinity and will join a group of Resistant.
Papon business
Then " will come; the business Papon " where Slitinsky showed documents attesting of the participation of Maurice Papon (then secretary of prefecture) in the deportation of the Juif S towards the Germany.