Kammala wannan jumla: Kodayake Shoah ya bayyana a cikin duk abin da ya faru a farkon shekarun 1940, tun kafin wannan ya riga ya bayyana cewa halin da ake ciki a Jamus zai zama mafi muni, musamman ga Yahudawa. Zuwa ƙarshen 1930s Olievensteins ya tsere zuwa Faransa. A shekara ta 1942 gwamnatin marigayi ta Faransa ta fara tattara yahudawa a kudancin rabin Faransa, inda yawancin suka taru don tserewa daga arewacin Faransa da aka mamaye (Kimanin kashi 50% na yahudawa a Metropolitan Faransa a wannan lokacin 'yan gudun hijira ne daga Jamus ko daga yankunan da sojojin Jamus suka mamaye kwanan nan.) Waɗanda aka tara, an kai su sansanin mutuwa a Jamus. Olievensteins, duk da haka, sun guje wa hallaka ta hanyar tserewa daga Jamus zuwa Faransa, yanzu sun guje wa hallaka a karo na biyu lokacin da suka ƙi yin biyayya ga abin da gwamnati ta buƙaci cewa yahudawa su gane kansu ta hanyar sanya tauraron rawaya a duk inda za a iya gani. Bayan yaro wanda ya koya masa ya ɓoye asalinsa na Yahudanci, bayan
mafarki mai ban tsoro ya ƙare dangin Claude Olievenstein sun zauna a Paris, birni wanda zai ƙaunace shi da sauri: "Yanzu mun sami wurinmu a duniya. Muna da 'yancin zama yadda muke,'matsalar Yahudawa' ta daina wanzuwa". A cikin Paris ne Claude Olievenstein ya yi karatunsa a likitancin kwakwalwa. Lokacin da yake saurayi ya shiga cikin Young Communists, amma a ƙarshe an cire shi. Ya zama daya daga cikin shugabannin kungiyar daliban Yahudawa na Faransa: asalinsa na Yahudanci ya kasance mai mahimmanci a gare shi.