Samuel Pintel survived the raid on the Izieu house during which 44 Jewish children were arrested, before being deported and then executed. Pintel, born in 1937 in Paris into a family of Polish Jews, had his life saved because he left the colony a few weeks before the drama.
For several decades, this man did not know where he had been placed from November 1943 to January 1944. He only discovered it in 1987 in front of his television during the trial of Klaus Barbie, the head of the Lyon gestapo.