The composer of Paris will always be Paris and of Felicia too was one of the brightest and most vocal melodists of the interwar period. Casimir Oberfeld has offered some of their greatest successes to Maurice Chevalier, Fernandel, Arletty and Mistinguett. We also owe him innumerable musics of films, operettas and magazines, not to mention the tangos, the charlestons, the paso-doble that made a whole generation dance.
Born in Poland, Casimir Oberfeld chose in the early thirties to settle in France, where he would become the most Parisian of Parisians. In 1943, he was deported to Auschwitz, and died two years later, while the Nazis decided to evacuate the still valid prisoners.
Buried in the mass grave of a small Czech cemetery his body was identified in 2011. Today, thanks to his son’s efforts, his ashes are buried in the Montmartre cemetery in Paris. Casimir Oberfeld is thus back to rest not in his native land, but in France, in his adopted country and his homeland of heart.