Gilles Mendel
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690 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 4 Feb
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I mean, you know, I mean, I grew up, you know, in a, in a, in a, in a, I mean, I grew up in an area in Paris called Neuilly, you know, which is a little wood of Boulogne.
In fact, I was born at the American hospital in Paris, which is the American hospital.
Who do know that later on, here I am, you know, in America.
I mean, you know, I grew up surrounded by, obviously, my parents that had, you know, such tremendous experience with the war and so on.
So it was, they, during my whole youth, they tried not to impose in me, you know, what they went through.
Even my religious, I have not been religiously educated in any way.
You know, I was very free.
Because they really suffered enormously.
My mom went, you know, to a terrible concentration camp.
I just read recently that, you know, in Drancy, where she was staying, where she stood during the war, 70,000 people went in and only 2,000 went out.
And she was one of them.
So it's like incredible.
And, you know, to date, unfortunately she passed away, but till the last moment, she really never really wanted to talk about it.
I mean, it was such a trauma.
I mean, you could imagine.
I can't.
I just can't imagine.
I think that's what, it's almost unimaginable.
Unimaginable.
What people went through.
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