With his fellow survivors of the horror, "human wrecks who were said to take twenty years to die", he had made a promise to himself: "Hold on as long as we can".
Holocaust survivor Elie Buzyn died on Monday morning at the age of 93, his daughter Agnès Buzyn announced.
“He passed away this morning.
He was surrounded by his family, ”said the former Minister of Health.
"He felt unwell yesterday [Sunday] evening just after a testimony conference, where he was with young people to "pass the baton", a conference, which was very moving, very upsetting, which touched him a lot " , she added.
"He passed on the baton with incredible consistency and determination until the end," said Chief Rabbi Haïm Korsia.
"Until the end, he carried the word"
“Immense witness to the Holocaust and tireless fighter for memory Elie Buzyn, has left us,” also wrote on Twitter Francis Kalifat, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions (Crif).
An immense witness to the Shoah and an indefatigable fighter for memory Élie Buzyn left us. Until the end, he carried the voice of the victims of Nazi barbarism. His death plunges me into deep sadness.
His memory obliges us.
@Shoah_Foundation @Le_CRIF @Shoah_Memorial
— Francis Kalifat (@FrancisKalifat) May 23, 2022
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“Until the end, he carried the word of the victims of Nazi barbarism”, he added, underlining: “His memory obliges us”.
"We learn with great sadness of the death of Elie Buzyn", also tweeted the Foundation for the memory of the Shoah.
Auschwitz survivor
This survivor of the Auschwitz camp, born in Poland on January 7, 1929, had been arrested in August 1944 in the Jewish ghetto of Lodz where his family was penned.
In 1956, he moved to France, where he became an orthopedic surgeon and married a renowned psychoanalyst, Etty Buzyn (née Wrobel), a specialist in early childhood.
After the war, he was silent for a long time, but then worked to transmit the memory of the Shoah.
He called on young people to be “witnesses to witnesses” and had accompanied school groups led each year by the Chief Rabbi of France Haïm Korsia.
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