Maurice Wolfowicz

Document is a certificate from a lieutenant in the National Liberation Movement, attesting that Maurice Wolfowicz served under him from May 1942 until the Paris uprising of August 1944. Circular stamp at lower right with Cross of Lorraine in centre.

Paris was liberated on August 25, 1945, when the Germans surrendered. Members of the French resistance were part of the fight to liberate the city. This document indicates that Maurice Wolfowicz was one of them. He was born in 1906 in Jędrzejów, Poland, and had moved to Paris at the age of 19. Before the War, he created patterns for designers, but during the War, he joined the French resistance. Maurice was the only Jew of a group of twelve resistance fighters whose main tasks were to derail trains, watch bridges and put up posters denouncing collaborators. Maurice, his wife Svetla and their two children survived the war, unlike his parents and seven of his eight siblings who were killed at the Treblinka death camp in Poland. The Wolfowicz family immigrated in Canada in 1976.

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