page_title: Eddy Palacci
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Eddy Palacci / Background
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: carte postale du défilé de la victoire le 14 juillet 1919, place de l'Étoile, à Paris.
context_page_description: Edmond Vita Palacci, generally known as "Eddy Palacci," was a French-Israeli chemical engineer and author, whose memoirs recount his survival in Occupied France during World War II and help for the French Resistance.
context_section_description: Edmond Vita Palacci was born on February 9, 1931, in Paris.  In the mid-1930s, he traveled with his family to Cairo, where they hoped his Egyptian-born father would recover from illness.  In the summer of 1939, weeks before Nazi Germany invaded Poland, Palacci's mother sent him home to her parents in Paris.
caption: Palacci could see the Arc de Triomphe from his window (here, Victory parade of July 14, 1919, at Place de l'Etoile)
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