They were 39 and 32 years old respectively when he was born. The wedding was held at the town hall of the 10th district of Paris. This marriage ended in a divorce, and we have found no further information about Germaine Weil. He was then 54 years old and his new bride was They were married at a. A few days earlier, on March 6, a notary named Constantin had drawn up a marriage contract. We have therefore concluded that he had no children from either marriage or, if he did, perhaps that they were not fortunate enough to live for very long, so they are not listed anywhere.
First of all, although he began his military service in , he was discharged because his brother died in the line of duty. However, when the First World War broke out in , he enlisted on September The Battle of the Marne, which took place from September 6 to 12, may have prompted him to sign up even voluntarily though he was exempt from military service. He was most likely seriously wounded because he was permanently discharged on the grounds of invalidity.
He was 38 at the time. We also discovered that he was involved in a totally different line of work: he was the approved auditor of the Aeroclub of France, which was a very innovative enterprise at the time. These various interests reveal an educated, cultured and very dynamic professional figure.
Then came the dark days of the Second World War and the occupation. In , the German authorities ordered all French Jews to take part in a census and in June , they were required to wear a yellow star. The Gestapo was in charge of searching and arresting all Jews, firstly in the occupied zone and then throughout the country. On June 6, , when the Allied forces landed in Normandy, the German troops were forced to retreat.
When the Gestapo burst into the offices during the afternoon of July 10, they were looking for a missing Jew. Two witnesses were there at the time of the arrest; Madame Odette Heuriot, who lived at 38, avenue Simon Bolivar in the 19th district, and Mr. However, if he did, since he was almost 68 years old, sadly he could not have avoided being selected to die in the gas chambers. After the war, the date on which the people selected to be murdered was arbitrarily determined to be August 5, The trains took three days to travel from Drancy to Auschwitz and we know that the German authorities executed the deportees within hours of their arrival.
