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Fanny Ben-Ami (née Fanny Eyal; born 19 March 1930) is a French writer and child of the Holocaust.
Nov 17, 2016 · Fanny Ben-Ami, a stylish 85-year-old, knows a thing or two about war. When still a child in France, she saved 28 children from deportation, a story she has told in a memoir that has now been...
Torchlighters. Fanny Ben-Ami lit one of six torches at the State Opening Ceremony of Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem in 2019. Fanny Ben-Ami was born in 1930 in Baden-Baden, Germany, to Hirsch and Yohanna-Hannah Eyal. When Hitler rose to power, her family fled to Paris.
Feb 1, 2023 · THE DANGEROUS JOURNEY. A seventeen-year-old girl was in charge of the children on their journey but panicked when, close to the border, Nazi soldiers boarded the train. She refused to go on. In an instant, Fanny led the children off the train and helped the group climb inside a postal railcar instead.
Nov 29, 2016 · As French director Lola Doillon filmed her WWII movie for children, she was shocked by the parallelism of survivor Fanny Ben-Ami's story and that of today's refugees
May 1, 2019 · Fanny Ben-Ami was born in 1930 in Baden-Baden, Germany. When Hitler rose to power, her family fled to Paris. When WWII broke out Fanny‘s father Hirsch was imprisoned. Following the German ...
May 4, 2018 · Correspondent Allison Hazlett spends some time with Fanny Ben Ami discussing her perilous flight to freedom and how she had the strength and the courage to f...
