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Witness History: The Paris hotel that hosted Holocaust survivors

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29/10/2019 GMT

The Paris hotel that hosted Holocaust survivors

BBC World Service - Witness History, The Paris hotel that hosted Holocaust survivors

The Hotel Lutetia became a reception centre for French Holocaust survivors after WW2

The Hotel Lutetia, a grand Parisian establishment, became a reception centre for former prisoners and concentration camp survivors at the end of World War Two.

At the end of the Second World War the grand Parisian hotel, the Lutetia, was allocated to receive thousands of prisoners and Nazi concentration camp survivors returning home from across a ravaged Europe. Louise Hidalgo talks to two people for whom the Hotel Lutetia played a crucial role in 1945: Maurice Cling, a survivor of Auschwitz, and Christiane Umido who, as a young girl, was reunited there with her father.

Picture: concentration camp survivors camps in the Lutetia restaurant in 1945 (credit: STF / AFP Photo )

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