80 years after the Vel d’Hiv roundup: portrait of Adrienne Ullmann among the families sought in 1942 in Eure-et-Loir

A French woman

Since her marriage to Bernard Ullmann in 1926, Adrienne, Dreyfus, born in Paris in 1902, lived, like her sister-in-law, Thérèse Ullmann-Weil, in the building on rue des Changes, the ground floor of which was occupied by the shop. Adrienne was “French by origin and for a long time”, her parents having left German Alsace in 1871 to remain French.

Listed

In 1940, the armistice placed Chartres in the occupied zone and the French state was born on July 10. The 1st German ordinance of September 27 and the law of October 3 of the French State submitted Adrienne to the census of “Jews”, and to the mention “Jew” on her identity card.

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dispossessed

The 2nd German ordinance of October 18 condemned the “Jewish enterprise” Ullmann to liquidation or “Aryanization”. Its sale to “Catholic” buyers was signed that same day.
In 1941, this dispossession of income was subject to the supervision of the Economic Department of the Jewish Affairs Commission created by Vichy on March 29, and to the law of July 22.

In 1942, on May 28, the 8th German order forced Adrienne to wear the “star”.

Stopped

On June 25 and 26, the gendarmerie of Eure-et-Loir informed the prefect of the arrest of “French Jews” by the “German authorities”. Adrienne Ullmann was one of them, her husband too. The prison register of the Chartres prison mentions his entry on the 25th and his handing over to the “German authorities” on the 27th.

Interned

She was taken, along with her husband, among a group of twenty-one people, in a truck escorted by gendarmes on the orders of the “German authorities”, to the French internment camp at Beaune-la-Rolande (Loiret), guarded by the French gendarmerie.

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Planned annihilation

The following day, June 28, she was embarked on the 5th “transport” of Jews from France to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp (Osviecim, Poland). Her husband too.
Scheduled for the 19th, this French train left at 5:20 a.m. and driven by a French railwayman relayed to Neubourg by a German, arrived at its destination on June 30th. Neither Adrienne nor her husband returned. Jacqueline Ullmann of the same family, born in June 1927, in Chartres, died in Auschwitz on September 28, 1942.

Juliette Clement

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