Leon Malmed
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Leon Malmed

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Leon Malmed is a Holocasut Survivor. He was borne in France in the town of Compiègne in 1937. Compiègne was the site of the railroad car where the 1st and 2nd World War Armistices were signed. He spent the war hidden after his Jewish parents were arrested and sent to the extermination camp of Auschwitz in 1942 where they perished. He lived less than half a mile away from the Detention/Concentration camp of Royallieu called Stalag 122 where 52,000 prisoners of war, underground fighters, communists and hostages were murdered. He emigrated to the US in 1964 to be reunited with his surviving sister after a 14-year separation. So painful were the memories, he could not talk about the war era for more than sixty years. At the age of 70, he decides, at last, to write, in french, the testimony of how he survived the war and its aftermath. He enjoyed a successful career in the High Tech industry in Silicon Valley. He leaves in California. His book is entitled:"We Survived. At Last I Speak." This is Leon Malmed’s true story of his and his sister Rachel’s escape from the Holocaust in Occupied France. When their father and mother were arrested in 1942, their courageous and heroic French neighbors volunteered to take care of their children until they returned. Their downstairs neighbors, Henri and Suzanne Ribouleau along with their two teenage sons, gave the children a home and family and hid them through subsequent roundups, threats, air raids, and the war’s privations. The courage, sympathy, and dedication of the Ribouleaus and others stand in strong contrast to the collaborations and moral weakness of the French authorities. Leon and Rachel each came to America after the war, but always kept their strongest ties to “Papa Henri and Maman Suzanne,” who were honored as “Righteous Among the Nations” by Yad Vashem in 1977. Leon bares his soul in this narrative of love and courage, set against a backdrop of tragedy, fear, injustice, prejudice, and the greatest moral outrage of the modern era. It is a story of goodness triumphing once more over evil.
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