Editing Alice Parizeau (section)

==Early life==
Her parents were  Stanislaw Poznański (1894 - 1943) and Rebeka (Bronislawa Breina) Kestenberg (1892-1943) Polish Jews murdered in the Holocaust, both in [[Otwock]], Poland according to the testimony of  Kestenberg's brother, Yehuda Adam Kestenberg, recorded in Yad Vashem.<ref>[https://yvng.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=en&s_lastName=Pozna%C5%84ski%20&s_firstName=Stanislaw%20&s_place=&s_dateOfBirth=&s_inTransport= Yad Vashem]</ref> Stanislaw Poznański was the son of Karol Poznański and grandson of [[Izrael Poznański]], a famous Polish-Jewish businessman, textile magnate and philanthropist ([[Philanthropy]]) in Łódź.

Born in [[Łuniniec]], Poland, as a young girl Poznańska was associated with the [[Polish Home Army]] during the 1944 [[Warsaw Uprising]] during [[World War II]], which led to her internment in the [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp|Bergen-Belsen]] prisoner of war camp and her receipt of a war medal following the war.<ref>Delphine Le Roux, [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/parizeau-alice/ "Alice Parizeau"]. ''The Canadian Encyclopedia''. Historica-Dominion, 2010</ref>

Following the war Poznańska went to [[Paris]] to study at the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]], earning degrees in literature, law and political science. In 1955 she visited a friend from the Sorbonne in Quebec, where she accepted a short contract which would turn into a lifelong stay. She married economist and politician [[Jacques Parizeau]] the following year.

Though of Jewish background, and interned in Bergen Belsen during the Holocaust, Alice Poznanska's funeral was held at a Catholic church.<ref>Myths, Issues, Facts, [http://sallyzerker.blogspot.ca/2005/11/jacque-parizeaus-jewish-offspring.html] "Jacque Parizeau's "Jewish" Offspring"</ref>