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three children; Chaja
Gurfinkiel had four. The four Blaszka children and three Goldberg children were
without parents.
Pithiviers camp
Car 1 – 49
children and no adults. Among them were the four Curko children, Anna (17),
Marie (14), Judith (9), and Hélène (5); the three Schtronberg
children, Raymonde (12), Michel (10), and Jacqueline (6); and Fanny (10) and
Esther (4) Fast. Other groups of two siblings include the names Warcholski,
Butter, Rosenblum, Chichtman, Warzaur, Kiszelewsko, Brudniewski, Pinkwasser,
Singer, Mestelsan, Lenga, and Grinhaus.
Car 2 – 42 children
and 4 women. Among them, the four Najman children, Berthe (14), Isaac (9),
David (5), and Fanny (4); and Drigera Brokman (38) and her two children, Anna
(12) and Salomon (9 months). Here, too, there were a number of two-sibling sets
of children: Aldak, Szpilberg, Kac, Herszkowirszo,
Davidowicz,
Wajsburt, Bromberg, Ochshorn,
Tabatchnikoff, and Ferszt.
Car 3 – 42 children and 9 women.
Among them were three Brotkiewicz
sisters, Sarah (14), Flora (12), and Marcelle (6); Moyses, (13), Paulette (9),
and Marcus (7) Elephant; Robert Steinmuller (11) and his brother and sister,
twins Robert and Suzie (5). There were also three Boksermans, two Wolinskis,
two Frydmans, two Sniadowskis, two Birmans, and two Schwarzsteins.
Car 4 – 43 children and 4 women. Ruchla Fikman had her two
children; and Marcia Rotsztejn was with her two children. There were also Fanny
(7) and Suzanne (4) Goldberg; Simon (9) and Jacques (8) Rendel; Denise (8) and
Maxime (3) Maguide; and Jacqueline (12)
and Madeleine (11) Epelbaum.
Car 5 – 25 children and 19
women. Among them, three Samuel children (without birthdates) and two Selik
children.
Last-minute additions
This sublist of 54 names
included some very young children, like Berthe (6) and Marcel (3) Metla. Tauba
Frajdenrajch (48) was with her three children. There was a child without
identity from Beaune-la-Rolande, #146; and another, #182, from Beaune.
Hélène Glina, also from Beaune, was 3. Rucha Szejn (34), who had
been living at 4 rue St. Louis en-l'Isle in Paris, was with her three children,
Germaine (9), Odette (5), and Salomon (13). There were Bernard (12) and
Gilberte (5) Simchowicz; Brucha Milibaum (39) and her three children, Jeanne
(10), Simone (8), and Liliane (4); two Blachmans; and two Stolovitchs.
Convoy 24, August 26, 1942
(Drancy) Convoy 24 deported a large number of children who had been in the
Loiret camps of Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande. There were 415 under 18 (249
boys), of whom 177-over 40 percent-were under 10 years of age. At Drancy, they
were put together with adults from camps in the Unoccupied Zone, particularly
Rivesaltes. Eighty-two percent (341) had been born in France.
This list
from the Pithiviers camp includes many children rounded up on July 15
and 16 in Paris and, for the most part, separated from their parents. Divided
by boxcar, it starts with car 6.
Car 6 – 47 names. There
were 35 adults and 12 children.
Car 7 – 33 children and 1
adult. Among the young children who had only one man to comfort them during
this nightmare trip were
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