Germaine Poliakov | |
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Germain Poliakov in 1961 | |
Born | Germaine Rousso 15 December 1918 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire |
Died | 19 February 2020(2020-02-19) (aged 101) Massy, France |
Nationality | French |
Occupation | Music instructor |
Germaine Poliakov (15 December 1918 — 19 February 2020) was an Ottoman-born French music teacher and Holocaust survivor.
Biography
Poliakov was born Germaine Rousso in 1918 in present-day Istanbul, but emigrated to France with her parents at the age of two. She went into hiding from the Gestapo in Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, and worked as a teacher for a hidden colony of Jewish children. She gave birth to three children in 1942, 1943, and 1944.
After the war, Germaine married the historian Léon Poliakov in 1947, with whom she bore a son in 1960. She founded the Chorale Accord in Massy in 1960. Léon died in 1997.
Poliakov died on 19 February 2020 at the age of 101.
Works
- Initiation à la lecture mélodique : une nouvelle approche du solfège (1979)
- Psaume 92 (v. 13-16) : liturgie hébraïque [pour chœur à 4 voix mixtes (1979)
- Chanter d'abord : solfège, initiation débutants : livre du maître (1984)
- Chanter d'abord : solfège, initiation débutants : livre de l'élève (1984)
Honors
- Knight of the Legion of Honour (2012)
References
- Markman, Eliel (2012). Germaine Poliakov-Rousso: une vie engagée.
- "Comité Français pour Yad Vashem" (in French). 18 October 1999. Archived from the original on 4 August 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
- "Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme" (PDF). Hôtel de Saint-Aignan (in French). 5 December 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 August 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
- "Juliette Lévy née Kahn". Les Amis de la Fondation de la Résistance (in French).
- "Discours au Mémorial". Cairn.info (in French). 1 February 2006.
- "La Chorale Massy". Chorale Accord Massy (in French).
- "Rencontre / Hommage à Léon Poliakov (1910-1997)". Le Parisien (in French). 24 March 2016.
- "Libre opinion". La Croix (in French). 18 December 1997.
- "Germaine POLIAKOV née ROUSSO - Avis de décès - Simplifia". www.simplifia.fr (in French). Retrieved 27 February 2020.
- "PSAUME 92 (v. 13-16)". Éditions À Coeur Joie (in French). Archived from the original on 4 August 2017.
- "Psaume 92 (v. 13-16)". BnF Catalogue général (in French). 1979.
- "Chanter d'abord". Jean-Michel Bardez (in French).
- "Chanter d'abord [Musique imprimée] : solfège : initiation débutants : livre du maître / Germaine Poliakov". BnF Catalogue général (in French). 1984.
- "Chanter d'abord [Musique imprimée] : solfège : initiation débutant : livre de l'élève / Germaine Poliakov". BnF Catalogue général (in French). 1984.
- "Décret du 14 novembre 2012 portant promotion et nomination". Legifrance.gouv.fr (in French). 14 November 2012.