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Name: Weil, Josette

Nationality: France

born: 29.03.1942 in Mancieulles (Meurthe-et-Moselle, France)

as daughter of:

Odette Georgette née Levy, born 18.2.1910 in Nancy, died 30.8.2003 in Paris, 20th Arr.
Marcel Henri Weil, born 7.2.1907 in Nancy, died 15.4.1994, in Vaux-Le-Pénil, Seine-et-Marne, engineer.

Siblings:

Jean Weil, born 6.09.1938; in Briey, died on 20.1.2021 in Bazouges, Cré sur Loir. Read short biography

buried: 27 April 1945 Tröbitz, Jewish Honor Cemetery, 2nd row, grave 22.

- Family:
- Odette Weil with her children Jean and Josette
  Photo: Documentation Center Drancy (fr)

Occupation:

Life:

1938	The Weil family lives at 5 Rue Joffre in Mancieulles (Meurthe-et-Moselle).
6.9. 1938	Jean Weil, Josette's brother, is born.
1939	Marcel Henri Weil is drafted into the army (61st RAD 192)
1941	He is taken prisoner of war and sent to the Fallingbostel camp.
29.3.1942	Josette Weil is born in Mancieulles.
9.10.1942	Josette, her mother, and her brother are arrested by the Sipo-SD in Mancieulles on October 9, 1942. They are interned in the prison of Briey, then in several transit camps in France: Ecrouves (Meurthe-et-Moselle), Drancy, Beaune-la-Rolande (Loiret), and back to Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis).

2.5.1944	Odette Weil and her two children are deported on May 2, 1944, from the Drancy camp (Convoy No. 80A) to the Bergen-Belsen camp (Germany).
10.4.1945	Josette Weil with her mother and brother, along with about 2500 other prisoners in the Lost Transport heading to Theresienstadt.
16.4.1945	Marcel Henri Weil is released from captivity.
23.4.1945	Liberation in Tröbitz by the Red Army.
27.4.1945	Josette dies two days after liberation. Regarding Josette's funeral and grave, her sister reports the following (via email from July 9, 2023): "Here is what Odette wrote in a notebook in September or October 1945, which she prepared for her husband to tell him about the life of Josette (whom he did not know): 'Josette is buried in the little pink wool dress that I knitted for her for the return to France. She rests in her pink blanket on the floor of the Protestant cemetery in Tröbitz.' I know that my parents wanted to bring Josette's body back to France, but they gave up, and I don't know much about their unsuccessful efforts. There is no grave for Josette in France. My brother Gerard and I accompanied my parents to Tröbitz in 1967, and according to my brother (but I don't remember), a grave was discovered as hers, but her name was not yet on it.'

After the Liberation (Text by Marie Josette):
Jean returned on June 24, 1945, with Paulette Marx, a friend of his mother's, and her daughter Janine from deportation, and his mother, who had been hospitalized due to typhus, only returned to the Hotel Lutecia in Paris on June 30. Odette and Marcel Weil moved to Thann (Haut-Rhin-68) in September 1945. Marcel Weil was the chief engineer at a chemical plant there from September 1945 until 1972 (now "TRONOX"). He also worked as an interpreter/expert for German at the Mulhouse court (he was practically bilingual) and for English. Jean became a teacher. He last worked at the Lycée Maurice Ravel in Paris. Marie Josette was born on August 1, 1946. At the beginning of her career, she was a researcher in sociology and later became a professor and trainer. Gérard René was born on June 30, 1948. Gérard was also a teacher. He ended his career in Nice. Odette and Marcel stayed in Alsace until 1972 (Marcel's retirement) and initially moved near Orléans, then to the Paris region, where their 3 children lived.

Sources:

- Dokumentationszentrum Drancy (frz)
https://ressources.memorialdelashoah.org/
- Persönliche Daten von Marie Josette Ehrhard-Weil per E-Mail im Juli 2023
- Zu der 61. RAD 192:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/61e_r%C3%A9giment_d%27artillerie
- https://www.geni.com/people/Odette-Weil/6000000188978812822
- https://www.geni.com/people/Marcel-Weil/6000000186057884823