Magda Hollander-Lafon

Madga Hollander-Lafon (15 June 1928 – 26 November 2023) was a Hungarian-born French writer, psychologist, and educator.

Of Jewish origin, Hollander-Lafon was deported to Auschwitz but survived the Holocaust. She moved to France in 1954 and wrote the books Quatre petits bouts de pain and Demain au creux de nos mains.

Biography Born in Záhony on 15 June 1928, Hollander-Lafon's mother, Esther, and her younger sister, Irène, were killed during the Holocaust. However, Hollander-Lafon lied about her age, claiming to be eighteen, so that she could work in forced labor and survive. She attributed her survival to a dying woman who shared bread with her and a guard who gave her shoes to help with her work. She spent 44 years caring for children in an orphanage, where she converted to Christianity.

Works Quatre petits bouts de pain (2012)

Tributes The Établissement Régional d’Enseignement Adapté de Rennes was named after her A square in Vern-sur-Seiche was named after her on 26 March 2022