Resistant and deported: the story of Joseph Borne, Elisabeth’s father

Udo not hurt alive. A painful past that the new Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, does not like to talk about. In 1972, when she was only 11 years old, she became a ward of the nation after the sudden death of her father, who committed suicide at the age of 49. “It’s the story of her life,” says a relative, who knew her as a child. Elisabeth’s father, Joseph Borne, and her brother Isaac were both born Bornstein. Jews and resistance fighters, they were deported together to Auschwitz, with their father and one of their brothers, then to Buchenwald. They alone will come back. “Isaac needed to talk about it,” says their relative. He was like, “Do you remember?” But Joseph didn’t want to, he couldn’t bear to talk about it. Joseph ended his life 27 years after his release from the death camps, the…