Dreyfus Family
Henry Wellisch
visited the grave of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in the Montparnass cemetery in
Paris. She writes as follows:
“As I read the inscription, I couldn’t help but notice an added
inscription:
A La Memoire de Madelaine Levy, Deportee par les Allemands, Disparue a
Auschwitz A L’age de 25 ans. I was immediately touched by the ironies of
life. Alfred Dreyfus who suffered such indignities from anti-Semitism in
the late 1800s lost a loved one in Auschwitz years later. I wondered who
she was, a granddaughter perhaps?”
Does anyone of our French experts have the answer to this one?
Henry Wellisch
Toronto
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>A La Memoire de Madelaine Levy, Deportee par les Allemands, Disparue a
>Auschwitz A L’age de 25 ans. I was immediately touched by the ironies of
Dreyfus's descendants include many public spirited Frenchmen and women.
Both his sons, Pierre and Jean, were decorated for their military
service in World War I, and his nephew, Emile, died in battle in World
War I and received the Legion of Honor, according to Professor Michael
Burns of Mount Holyoke College, author of "Dreyfus: A Family Affair"
(1992). Two granddaughters, Madeleine Levy, a social worker, and Simone
Perl, worked with the French Resistance during World War II. Levy was
arrested by the Gestapo and died in Auschwitz in 1944.
Michael Fingerhut
Paris, France
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In yesterday's bulletin was an inquiry concerning the
descendants of Alfred Dreyfus:
A recent news program on I believe the Art and Entertainment
chnnel had data on the grandchildren of Alfred Dreyfus who were
active in the French resistance during World War II. On
survived but another was catured, tortured and later killed by
the Germans.
L'Shanna Tova,
Stephen A. Cohen
PS: I am researching the following families:
BAUM-Germany:Bosen; EISENKRAMER & LEFEVRE-Germany:Rhineland
Palatine; BASIST-Lith: Vilna or Vilnius, Belarus:Lida District
COHEN & SHEINHOUSE-Belarus:Radoshkovichi & Molodechno
BIRNBAUM & GOLDBERG-Poland: Krakow; Geller-Poland: Mielec
KREINDLER-Poland: ALL; Leinkram-Poland: Krakow,Ireland, England
SCHNEPS/SHNEPS-Poland: Debica/Dembitz & Tarnow
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Eve Line Blum
information about a relative of Alfred Dreyfus, named Madeleine.
There were several replies, but there was an error : I want to clarify that
she was Madeleine LEVY, and not Madeleine DREYFUS, since her mother was
Jeanne DREYFUS and her father Pierre-Paul LEVY.
Captain Alfred DREYFUS had two children : Pierre Leon DREYFUS and Jeanne
DREYFUS, with several descendants.
Jeanne DREYFUS married Pierre Paul LEVY. They had 5 children, among whom
was Madeleine LEVY. As it was answered before, she was born on 18 November
1918 in Paris.
During WWII, Madeleine LEVY was in the Resistance, as a member of the very
wellknow network "Combat" and she deserved the "Croix de Guerre avec
palmes" (War Cross with bars) and the "Medaille militaire" (Military Medal).
She was deported with the transport # 62 which left Drancy to Auchwitz on
20 november 1943.
One of Madeleine's siblings is Jean Louis LEVY, married Jeanine MOSSE. They
had two daughters who died on 26 July 1963 in SKOPLJE (Yugoslavia) when
happened that terrible earthquake.
Several Dreyfus family trees were published here and there. Dr Henri Claude
Mars, the expert in DREYFUS families (some American people use to call him
"the greatest Dreyfusologist in the world" ;-) who is (also) a member of
the Cercle de Genealogie Juive in Paris, published one in the bulletin # 36
(4th term 1993) of this Association. For your information, the family tree
of A. Dreyfus's wife, Lucie Hadamard, was published in the same review (#
40, Winter 1994).
Another very interesting and very well documented Dreyfus family tree was
published in "A la decouverte de leurs racines", by Joseph Valynseele and
Denis Grando, tome II.
Eve Line Blum
Besancon (France)
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>Mars, the expert in DREYFUS families (some American people use to call him
Eve,
By any chance, do you know if there is a connection between the French
Dreyfus line and the American one? I speak of Jack Jonas Dreyfus (1885-1972)
whose son was president of the large mutual fund corporation. Jack, Sr. was
married to my great aunt, Virginia Anderson (1896-1982).
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