Yvette Levy (born Dreyfus) was born the June 21st 1926 with Paris (11th district of Paris). She is a surviving Frenchwoman and a witness of the Shoah.

His/her parents were Juifs Alsatian, which moved in Parisian suburbs, where Yvette Levy grew with his two brothers. The family leaves to Tours to flee persecutions Nazies. Of return to Paris, it endures the Lois of Nuremberg, i.e. the laws anti-Jews.

Instructress with the scouts Jews of France, it accommodated children of deportees. Its group is stopped by the Gestapo the July 22nd 1944, it is transferred to the Camp from Drancy, then, in a convoy of: 1300 people, with the concentration camp of Auschwitz where she discovers the horror of the Holocaust.

In 1944, it is transferred in a camp in Czechoslovakia where it works in an arms factory. To the Release, in 1945, it returns in France. She married with a hidden Jew with Marseilles during the war.

To testify

Yvette Levy belongs to the surviving last of Shoah. She has devoted for several years most of her time to testify.

Bonds - testimonys - interviews

• Interviews with Yvette Levy
• Memories of Auschwitz, March 2005
• Interview of TV5
• Amicale of the deportees of Auschwitz
• Auschwitz way of memory… for today
• Auschwitz the young people speak
• a past which does not pass - Drancy, 2005

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