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the deportees. It has
required lengthy research to correctly identify the age and birthplace of
almost all the children transferred from the Unoccupied Zone.
Drancy
152 names of men and women of all ages. There were some entire
families. Cynopja Arm (35) was with her three children, André (10),
Adèle (6), and Thérèse (2). They had been living in Paris
at 40 faubourg Montmartre. There was also the Davidovitz family, Hengla and Jacob and their three sons,
David (19), Maurice (14), and Fernand (12), from 129 faubourg du Temple
(Paris); Chaya Klarfeld (41) and her two
daughters, Myriam (12) and Yvette (3); Laja Nudelmann (41) and her three
children, Henri (11), Sarah (8), and Rachel (2); Hana Szwarc (39) and her six
children: Gabrielle (16) Paulette (15) Isidore (8), Maurice (6), Edith (3), and
Jeannine (2).
Beaune-la-Rolande and Pithiviers camps
102
names. Like the preceding convoys, this one included children rounded up in the
Vel d'Hiv action. The list shows that most children were accompanied by their
mothers. Rucha Borensztein (45) was with her three children, Ida (15), Adolphe
(8), and Charles(5). Ella Dancyger (30)
was with her 4-year-old twins Jacques and Charlotte; Dwopa Monczarz (34) with
her four, Rachel (10), Salomon (8), Adèle (7), and Suzanne (4); and
Malka Opalek (37) with her four, Yvette
(12), Raymond (10), Marguerite (9), and Henri (7).
But many were
children alone; one can only imagine their desolation: Rosette Dulba (6); Henri
Garnek (11) and his brother Jean (3);
Henri Goldberg (9); Hélène (9) and Loty (5)
Goldenberg; Thérèse
Gryngajer (4). There were six brothers and sisters Ryczywol, Maurice (12),
Odette (10), Rachel (8), Rosette (6), Léon (5), and Jacques (2). Other
young children include Henri Sevelevicz (4); Jacky Rosenberger (5); Pierre
Siematicka (3); Michel Gulgovitch (3); Cypra Nadel (2); Bejla (6) and Szezanna
(5) Klajner; Robert Rajman (6); Robert Eichmann (6); Nelly (5) and Lucienne (2)
Stopnicki; Charlotte Sztark (4); Marie
(10) and Bernard (4) Lenczner; and Paul
Solman (6). There was even a child with
no name, only the number 237.
There is a temptation to mention them
all, as if, by writing their names, one could at least temporarily snatch them
from the clutches of their terrible fate.
Last-minute additions
51 names. Many of these were, undoubtedly, people wishing to leave with
members of their families whom they knew to be part of this convoy. For
example, the Creuse list shows Ceise and Alexandre Dym. On the "last-minute"
list was Theophila Dym. The Haute-Vienne list includes Liselotte Mauner; on the
last-minute list three other Mauners – Rosa, Félicitas, and Julia
– appear with the notation "Haute-Vienne." But there were also very young
children, among them Georges Rosenberg (born in 1940) and Suzanne Kozewnik
(born in 1939). Finally, there were two notations as follows: "little girl
wearing placard #36, aged 2" and "a boy of 3."
Convoy 27, September 2, 1942 (Drancy)
Convoy 27
deported 138 children under 18, 65 boys and 73 girls. They included the
children delivered by Vichy to the Gestapo (see
convoy 26), of whom about 20 were from
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