Witness History
Witness History
The Paris hotel that hosted Holocaust survivors
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October 29, 2019
9 minutes
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At the end of the Second World War the grand Parisian hotel, the Lutetia, was allocated to receive thousands of prisoners and Nazi concentration camp survivors returning home from across a ravaged Europe. Louise Hidalgo talks to two people for whom the Hotel Lutetia played a crucial role in 1945: Maurice Cling, a survivor of Auschwitz, and Christiane Umido who, as a young girl, was reunited there with her father.
Picture: concentration camp survivors camps in the Lutetia restaurant in 1945 (credit: STF / AFP Photo )