Editing Jean-Marie Lustiger (section)

===Early years===
Lustiger was born '''Aron Lustiger''' in Paris to a [[History of the Jews in France|Jewish]] family. His parents, Charles and Gisèle Lustiger, were [[Ashkenazi Jews]] from [[Będzin]], [[Poland]], who had left Poland around [[World War I]].<ref name=Fig>Sophie de Ravinel, [http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20070805.WWW000000088_le_cardinal_lustiger_est_mort.html Le cardinal Lustiger est mort], ''[[Le Figaro]]'', 5 August 2007 {{in lang|fr}}</ref> Lustiger's father ran a hosiery shop. Aron Lustiger studied at the [[Lycée Montaigne (Paris)|Lycée Montaigne]] in Paris, where he first encountered [[anti-Semitism]].<ref name=Monde>Henri Tincq, [http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3382,36-942169@51-942139,0.html L'adieu à Jean-Marie Lustiger]{{Dead link|date=January 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ''[[Le Monde]]'', 6 August 2007 {{in lang|fr}}</ref><ref>Interview with the Israeli daily, ''[[Yediot Ahronoth]]'', published in 1982 by the journal ''[[Le Débat]]'' (quoted by Sophie de Ravinel, [http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20070805.WWW000000088_le_cardinal_lustiger_est_mort.html Le cardinal Lustiger est mort], ''[[Le Figaro]]'', 5 August 2007) {{in lang|fr}}</ref> Visiting [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] in 1937, he was hosted by an [[anti-fascism|anti-Nazi]] [[Protestant]] family whose children had been required to join the [[Hitler Youth]].<ref name=Fig/><ref name=Telegraph/>

Sometime between the ages of ten and twelve, Lustiger came across a [[Protestant Bible]] and felt inexplicably attracted to it. On the outbreak of [[World War II]] in September 1939, the family moved to [[Orléans]].<ref name=Fig/><ref name=Telegraph>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080225101652/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/07/db0701.xml Cardinal Lustiger], ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'', 7 August 2007 {{in lang|en}}</ref>

In March 1940, during [[Holy Week]], the 13-year-old Lustiger decided to convert to [[Catholic Church|Catholicism]]. On 21 August he was [[Baptism|baptized]] as Aron Jean-Marie by the [[Bishopric of Orléans|Bishop of Orléans]], [[Jules-Marie-Victor Courcoux]]. His sister converted later.<ref name=IHT>John Tagliabue, [http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/06/europe/lustiger.php French Catholic leader, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, dies at 80], ''[[International Herald Tribune]]'', 6 August 2007</ref> In October 1940, the [[Vichy regime]] passed the first of many [[Vichy anti-Jewish legislation|anti-Semitic laws]], which forced increasingly strict conditions on Jews in the unoccupied zone.<ref name=Monde/>

Lustiger, his father, and sister sought refuge in [[Zone libre|unoccupied southern France]], while his mother returned to Paris to run the family business. In September 1942, his mother was deported to the [[Auschwitz concentration camp]] where she was murdered the following year. The surviving family returned to Paris at the end of the war.<ref name="IHT"/> Lustiger's father tried unsuccessfully to have his son's baptism annulled, and even sought the help of the chief rabbi of Paris.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080225101652/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/07/db0701.xml Cardinal Lustiger], ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'', 7 August 2007</ref>