Tag: Arlette
Paralympic Games: Arlette Fokoa, a Cameroonian who wants to stay on track
Arlette Mawe Fokoa, a Cameroonian discus thrower who is new to the Paralympic Games, was able to measure the gap that still separates her from the best discus throwers in…
Arlette Testyler, survivor of the Vel d’Hiv roundup: “I tell this story for those who did not return”
It was just 80 years ago. On July 16 and 17, 1942, on the orders of the Vichy government, French police arrested nearly 12,000 Jews. In Paris, 8,000 of them,…