Ephim Chapiro 1897 - 1945 Edit

Ephim Chapiro was a French Jew married to Rosa Gingold. He had one child, Yvette Chapiro. He hid out in Lyon during the war, but was ultimately caught and arrested on August 7, 1944. He was sent on one of the last trains from France to Auschwitz leaving Montluc prison in Lyon on August 11, 1944 (Convoy No. 78). He was sent on a death march to Mauthausen where he died in February 1945. The information given to the family came from Zoltan Klar, a Hungarian Jewish doctor in Block 6.

Kyra Schulma

Kyra Schulman is a student at the University of Pennsylvania. Ephim Chapiro is her great grandfather.