They emigrated to France, where she married Jean Morhange, a Jewish doctor who was two years her elder, and they settled at Chamberet.
[2] Another doctor within the community, who was also the local mayor, is believed to have betrayed Zina Morhange to the Gestapo,[3] and she was arrested on 8 April 1944.
Her seven-year-old daughter, Claude, was hidden by her schoolteachers and cared for by the village dressmaker, who also sheltered the other family members.
[4] On 29 April, Dr. Morhange was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp in convoy no 72; there she was assigned to Revier "hospital" and made to act as the examining doctor for prisoners about to be sent to the gas chamber; by making misleading diagnoses, she was able to save some lives.
Zina inherited the clothes shop he owned in Marseille, but did not wish to continue to run the business and returned to live in Paris.