Raymond Gurême was born in 1925 near Paris into a French Manouche (i.e. Sinti in French) family. As did several generations of the family before them, his parents owned a small circus and a traveling cinema: the family toured France and parts of Belgium and Switzerland where they were warmly received in villages deprived of entertainment. The whole family was involved: Raymond’s father Hubert Leroux, a First World War veteran, was an acrobat, musician, and film projectionist, his mother Mélanie trained their nine children who all mastered different circus activities. Raymond for instance was an acrobat, a clown, and later a horse tamer. He recalls the fun but also the hard work, such as rewinding films onto their reels after the evening screenings.The link is taken from life stories and youtube :
Live Stories web:http://www.forgottencosmopolitans.eu/?p=584
Youtube Auschwitz:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPhj_InkFAs