Cover Page Teaching Suggestions Prologue Film in DVD or VHS Foreword Reader's Guide Excerpts CONTENTS INTERVIEWS,1993-1994: Part One 1) The German Occupation 2) The Arrest of Marcel Jabelot 3) Drancy 4) The Train to Auschwitz 5) Arrival at Auschwitz 6) Tattooing a Number 7) The First Night 8) The Food 9) Birkenau 10) The Coal Mine 11) The Belgian Architect 12) The Death March 13) The Polish Woman 14) The Russians 15) The Red Cross 16) Bucarest-Odessa-Marseille 17) Post-War 18) Anti-Semitism INTERVIEWS,1993-1994: Part Two 19) Return to Paris 20) Work 21) The Sorbonne 22) Loss of Faith 23) Marriage 24) Bearing Witness 25) Lessons SPEECHES AND LETTERS Tuesday, March 14, 1995 Marcel Jabelot's decoration as Chevalier in the Legion of Honor; presentation speech by Charles Palant; Pavillon Dauphine, Paris. (continuation) Tuesday, March 14, 1995 Marcel Jabelot's speech upon receiving the Legion of Honor medal; Pavillon Dauphine, Paris. April 28, 1996 Speech by Marcel Jabelot at the premiere of Visages de la Shoah [Faces of the Holocaust] at The Agnes Irwin School July 20, 1997 Speech by Marcel Jabelot in Drancy, for the Day of Commemoration of Racist and Anti-Semitic Persecutions January 25, 2005 Excerpts of the speech by M. Jacques Chirac, President of the Republic, at the inauguration of the Shoah Memorial in Paris January 18, 2007 Pantheon speech by M. Jacques Chirac, President of the Republic, in the national ceremony in honor of the Righteous of France. Letters from Jabelot to three students READER'S GUIDE Chronology of World War II Major Events in the Life of Marcel Jabelot Comprehension Questions Part One Part Two Discussion Questions RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY History Memoirs and Literary Works Internet Resources INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHOR ILLUSTRATIONS Danièle Leclercq Jabelot and Marcel Jabelot in Villanova, 1996 Marcel Jabelot at the age of five George and Simone Jablonowicz, Marcel's parents Nineteen-year-old Marcel with his mother, in Nice France in 1942, the Occupied Zone to the north and the "Free" Zone to the south Second massive arrest of Jews in Paris, August 29, 1941 Drancy Internment Camp, the Gate Anti-Jewish propaganda poster, Paris, 1941 Saint-Mandé Children’s Home. Twenty girls arrested on July 22, 1944 and later deported to Auschwitz Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (Buna-Monowitz [Auschwitz III]) Memorial at Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (Buna-Monowitz [Auschwitz III]) Decoration as Chevalier in the Legion of Honor The plaque at Drancy Drancy Memorial: the train car Vél d'Hiv roundup, buses parked along the Vélodrome d'Hiver, July 16-17, 1942 Monument, Vél d'Hiv roundup, Paris Marcel Jabelot in his apartment in Neuilly-sur-Seine Rue de Rivoli, 1944