Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Daga zuriyar Yahudawa na Lithuania, Reims ya fara zuwa Faransa a 1933. Mahaifinta shi ne Judelas Remzas. Mahaifin Reims da uwargidansa sun tsere daga ta'addancin Vel' d'Hiv Roundup
Yahudawa a Paris a 1942, amma an raba su a cikin rikicewar yaki. Shi kaɗai a Vichy, Reims ya shiga ƙungiyar juriya ta Yahudawa, Kungiyar Juive de Combat. Ita, mahaifinta, da kawunta sun sake haɗuwa a 1944 amma kawunta, Gustav Gumpert, an kashe shi a Auschwitz.