Maurice Sachs

Maurice Ettinghausen was born into a family of Jewish jewelers. He was brought up in an English-type boarding school, lived for a year in London , where he worked in a bookstore, then returned to Paris ^[3] .

In 1925 he converted to Catholicism and decided to become a priest, although this desire passed after meeting with a young man on the beach in Juan-les-Pins.

After participating in a number of dubious commercial operations, Sachs left for New York , where he appeared to be an art dealer. Returning to Paris, he made acquaintance with the leading homosexual writers of the time, Jean Cocteau , Andre Gide and Max Jacob , with each of whom had a stormy relationship of an incomprehensible nature. At different times he worked with Jean Cocteau and Coco Chanel , in both cases stealing from them.

He was in a relationship with Violette Leduc , who described friendship with Sachs in her autobiography La Batarde ^[4] . She describes the creation and reading of the first version of Le Sabbat and how she unsuccessfully tried to get Sachs to remove rudeness from Cocteau from the text.

At the beginning of World War II, Sachs was mobilized, but was soon fired because of his homosexual orientation. In the first years of the occupation, he earned money by helping Jewish families flee to the unoccupied zone. Perhaps he was also an informant of the Gestapo . Sachs was later arrested and imprisoned in Fulsbüttel in Hamburg .

In 1945, before the advance of the British troops, the Fulsbüttel prison was evacuated with the prisoners to the city of Kiel . The evacuation was a long walk, which took several days. On the third day of the journey, April 14, 1945, at 11:00 in the morning, Sachs was so exhausted that he could not move on. He was killed by a bullet in the neck, and the body was left on the side of the road next to the body of another fellow sufferer. Emanuel Polo-Duljan said about Sax: “He does not show much compassion for the Jewish people and expresses regret for their resignation, which he considers to be the main feature of their character. In the village, seeing a herd of sheep, he sighed heavily and said: "Jews ...". The drama in which he plays does not elude him. But, caught in the snares of his own immorality, Sachs does not believe in the existence of innocent victims. "

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• Honoré Daumier , Pierre Tisné, 1939.
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