{"id":5952,"date":"2025-10-18T18:04:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nessler.fr\/?page_id=5952"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:32:22","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nessler.fr\/en\/histoire\/","title":{"rendered":"The story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Janine NESSLER (n\u00e9e Janine NETZLER) was born in August 1925 in Mantes-la-Ville, then a small town in the department of Seine-et-Oise (now Yvelines). She grew up in Paris, in the 17th arrondissement, where her curiosity and artistic sense were awakened very early.<\/p>\n

Her mother, from a rural French background, instilled in her a strong work ethic. Her father, a Romanian Jewish lawyer who spoke French, fled the pogroms in his country to find refuge in the land of "human rights." Attentive to his daughter's early passion for drawing and color, he gave her her first "artist's kit": a simple but pivotal gesture.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Marriage of Janine Nessler and Roger Azoulai, in 1951.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t
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With her husband and daughter, in the mid-1950s.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t
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Janine Nessler surrounded by her grandmother, her mother, her daughter and her granddaughter.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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In the early 1930s, during a family holiday in Brittany, young Janine met Luce Paris Hilsum, a painter, who would become her "godmother at heart" and would encourage her throughout her creative journey.<\/p>\n

The war disrupted this balance. Anti-Semitic laws and the increasing number of denunciations forced the family to leave Paris for Nice, where Janine nevertheless continued her studies and obtained her first baccalaureate. Her father died tragically shortly before the invasion of the unoccupied zone. In 1942, the family narrowly escaped the August roundups, finding refuge in Oloron-Sainte-Marie. Armed with false baptismal certificates, she then made her way to Paris. At nineteen, Janine witnessed the Liberation of Paris and volunteered at the H\u00f4tel Lutetia, which had been transformed into a reception center for survivors of Nazi camps.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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