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Arlette Testyler, mémoire vivante du Vel d'Hiv, est décédée à 93 ans

Figure majeure de la mémoire de la Shoah, Arlette Testyler s'est éteinte à 93 ans. Survivante du Vel d'Hiv, elle aura consacré sa vie à transmettre le souvenir de la déportation, jusqu'à présider l'Union des déportés d'Auschwitz.

Arlette Testyler, mémoire vivante du Vel d'Hiv, s'éteint à 93 ans
France's Delegate Minister for Gender Equality and Fight against Discriminations Aurore Berge (R), applauds next to Arlette Testyler, president of the Union of Auschwitz Deportees showing a work offered by school children, as they take part in a posthumous award ceremony of the "Righteous Among the Nations Medal and Diploma" the highest distinction created and issued by the State of Israel, for Jeanne and Jean Philippeau (who passed away in 1992 and 1993), who hosted and saved Madeleine, her sister Arlette Testyler, born Reimann and Simon Windlhandfor during the German occupation in 1942 , at the "Minotaure" performance hall, in Vendome, center western France on June 16, 2025. The president of the Union of Auschwitz Deportees, Arlette Testyler, a survivor of the Vel d’Hiv round-up, died on June 12, 2026, at the age of 93, the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah has announced. Born in Paris in 1933, Arlette Testyler, whose father died in Auschwitz, was arrested with her mother Malka and her sister Madeleine on July 16, 1942, then taken to the Velodrome d’Hiver before being interned at the Beaune-la-Rolande transit camp, from which they managed to escape, the Foundation recalls. JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP

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