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FRENCH CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST

A memorial
Serge Klarsfeld  

 
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both 16, and Jeannette (9); and three Aufrechters, Cécile (14), Henriette (11), and Georges(7). Jochwata Brabander (46) was with her five children, Anna (15), Berthe (12), Maurice (6), and 3-year-old twins Françoise and Jacques.

Car 7 – 33 children and 2 women.

Car 8 – 48 children and 7 women, among them Esther Rozenholc (42) with Fanny (14), Léon (9), Suzanne (8), and Lise (4).

Car 9 – 45 children and 8 women. The families Biglajzer and Poznanski were neighbors from the same building in Paris, 86 Faubourg St-Denis. Both mothers left with their children. The three Magier children – Hélène (11), Elie (10), and Geneviève (3) – of 81 Flandre Street, left without either parent.

Car 10 – 49 children and 5 women. Among them were the four Wierzba children, Claire(18), Sarah (15), Jeanne (13), and Jacques (10). Rosa Razencwajg (41) left with her four children, Jacqueline (10), Frida (9), Hélène (8), and Bernard (4).

Car 11 – 49 children and 6 women. Car 12-57 children and 3 women. This group included the four Binesztock children, Chana (12), Henri (9), Dora (5), and Jacqueline (3). Ruchla Skorupka (32) was with her five children, Suzanne (10), the twins Jacob and Henri (8) Samuel (6) and Paul (5).

Car 13 – 46 children and 1 woman. Among them were the three Goldstein children of 22 rue des Ecouffes, Georges (8), Bernard (7), and Simon (2); the three Slamowicz children of 14 rue Nonains, Bernard (10), Jacques (5), and Denise (3); and the three Grajcar children of 4 rue Piat, Thérèse (12), Maurice (8), and Claudine (4).

Car 14 – 46 children and 5 women. See, for example, Szyfe Sznurman (33) and her three children, Henri (10), Nicole (6), and Rosette (2). Chindla Moszkowisz (34) also had three children, all girls, Marcelle (11), Rachel (10), and Ginette (2). Dora Starowiejski (35) had three children, Ida (11), Madeleine (8), and Léon (3). Deported without parents were the five Winter children, Louise (15), Aline (11), Rachel (7), Micheline (5), and Maurice (4); and the three Cynaber children, Georges (12), Lucien (10), and Denise (6).

Car 15 – 30 children and 12 women. There were five Weldmanns, ranging in age from young adults to children – Hélène (24), Charlotte (18), Fanny (16), Fernande (14), and Albert (8). Tamara Zaborowski (28) left with her five children, Thérèse (11), Raymonde (8), Roland (6), Micheline (3), and Marcel (2). The Nazis placed three people on a list entitled "Last-minute volunteers." The three were children, ages 8, 7, and 5. Another list entitled "Volunteers" includes 16 people, among them seven children.

Convoy 21, August 19, 1942 (Drancy) Convoy 21 mixed hundreds of children from the camp at Pithiviers with adults from camps in the Unoccupied Zone – 237 from Les Milles and 85 from Le Vernet – and with 170 adults already at Drancy. A total of 454 deportees – 260 girls and 194 boys – in this convoy of 1,000 were under 18. Almost 90 percent were born in France, most in Paris. The list of deportees from Drancy on this convoy contained a sublist of 12 "volunteers." A comparison of names reveals that they must have been fathers or mothers separated from their children and interned at Drancy, who had learned that their children were coming from Pithiviers to Drancy. Thus they requested to leave on the same convoy.
     
   

FRENCH CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST

A memorial
Serge Klarsfeld

 
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