I was smuggled out of a Nazi prison at two years old before my mother was deported to Auschwitz - I didn't find out I was Jewish until I was a teenager Annick Lever was seven years old when she stepped between the woman she thought was her mother, Mimi, and Mimi's husband, who had come home drunk and threatened to kill her.
In fact, Annick was born in the south of France in November 1943 to a Jewish mother, who had been taken to a Nazi prison in France before being shipped off Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp when Annick was just two years old.
They didn't survive] Annick, who had been raised in a French Catholic household by Mimi and her husband, with fleeting visits from her father Pierre, had no previous indication that her story wasn't quite what it seemed.
Annick herself was imprisoned with her mother and maternal grandparents before being smuggled out of the jail, at which point she went to live with .
Her father Pierre met Liliane, from Paris, in the summer of 1939 when she was visiting the South of France with her sister and parents.
