| Alexandre Oler was born in Paris in 1930. He
experienced the persecution of Jews and himself was forced to wear the yellow star of
David as a schoolboy. When his father was arrested, he went into hiding, assisted by the
Jewish underground. His mother also went into hiding. The family was reunited after the
war and Alexandre resumed his education, which had been interrupted at the age of ten. He
went on to establish a successful career in business and finance. After his father’s
death in 1985, Alexandre donated his father’s drawings and sculptures to various
museums and reluctantly became a noted lecturer on the Holocaust. He has a son, Marc
Abraham, by his first wife. Alexandre and his second wife, Alice, live today in Nice, on
the Riviera. |
