Before the Second World War,
there were 40 to 50 Jewish
families.
Their main activities were trade
of livestock and grains, not to
mention several ritual butcher,
but also clothing and fabric
stores, tobacconist, drugstore.
The community was then very
traditionalist.
However, parents had the habit
of sending their children to
Catholic schools of the Sisters
of Providence.
The inhabitants of Bouzonville,
including of course the Jews
were evacuated at the outbreak
of war in 1939 to Chauvigny in
Vienna.
In spring 1944, 14 Jewish
families were lucky to escape a
roundup of the militia through
three brave people Chauvigny
whose mayor, Jacques toulat and
two constables, Camille Thibault
and Alain Bonneau, they are also
called " Righteous Among the
Nations "(Yad Vashem).
About twenty people were victims
of the Nazis and perished in the
camps.
Note the extraordinary case of
Charles Krameisen only survivor
after being thrown into a well
with many other Jews including
his wife Martha to Guerry (18)
near Saint-Amand-Montrond.
After the war, the decline of
the Jewish community has made
relatively quickly, given the
deaths of the older and the fact
that the younger generation has
moved to larger towns.
