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FRENCH CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST

A memorial
Serge Klarsfeld  

 
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Car 13 – 98 children and 1 adult. Zelman Wajbrot was with his children, Michel (10) and Fernande (6). Other children included the brothers David (10), Henri (7), and Willy (9) Marcowicz; and Pierrette (5) and Raymonde (2) Lesra.

Car 14 – 9 children and adults. Two young sisters in this group were Maxime (5) and Louise (2) Zajon; Serge (4) and Henri (3) Goldberg were young brothers.

Car 17 – 6 children and adults. Esther Djament accompanied her three children: twins Charles and Jacques (11) and Mireille (2).

Convoy 23, August 24, 1942 (Drancy) This was the fourth of the large convoys of children deported with adults who were not their parents. The adults came from Drancy (314), Belfort (22), and the Loiret camps. Of the 1,000 deportees, 593 were under 18, and just over half – 319, or 54 percent – were under 10. Slightly more than half (313) were boys. As in the previous convoys, most of the children deported – 90 percent (530) in convoy 23 – had been born in France, almost all in Paris. There were two children without identity and too young to identify themselves. The youngest known child on this convoy, Salomon Brokman, was 9 months old. Several sublists make up the overall list for this convoy:

Beaune-la-Rolande camp

Car 3 – 6 children. There were four Miller siblings, Rebecca (16), Henri (14), Liliane (7), and Claude (4); and Myriam (10) and Estera (8) Szejer.

Car 10 – 3 names. Tauba Kaminsky (46) and her children, Georges (11) and Jacqueline (3).

Car 12 – 4 names. One family group consisted of Boruch Rafal and his children, Fanny (15) and Bronett (13).

Car 13 – 48 children and 3 mothers.

Car 14 – 52 children and 3 mothers. Among them were Albert (7) and Jacques (3) Grajkar; and Denise (8) and Suzanne (3) Herbstein. There were three Cukierman children, Hélène (11), Nelly (7), and Ida (3); and three Zelechowskis, Léa (7), Simon (4), and Madeleine (3).

Car 17 – 76 children and 22 women. There were some mothers with their children, including Ermina Spring (45) and her four children, Joseph (13), Ignace (11), Dora (8), and Annette (5); Marie Papierman (47) and her four children, Annette (15), Suzanne (12), Charles (10), and Marcelle (8); and Jachet Fuks, Golda Zolty, Bajla Mlynowski, and Chana Auslerner, each with their three children. But many were without their parents, like the three Zlotnitzki children; others were completely alone without brothers and sisters.

Car 18 – 16 names, including Brandla Grines and her three children, Isaac (14), Louise (9), and Jacques (5).

Car 19 – 74 names, including children and women. Among them were Ruchla Kapler (47) and her five children, Max (11), Anne-Marie (9), Maurice (7), Cecile (5), and Bernard (3); and Deborah Wajsberg and her three little boys. Sura Marguilez, Malka Flambaum, Genendla Bajder, and Bassia Glater were also mothers, each accompanied by their three children.

Car 20 – 82 names. Estera Dziura, Perla Morgenstern, and Toba Trachtenberg each had
     
   

FRENCH CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST

A memorial
Serge Klarsfeld

 
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