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her girls,
Andrée (6) and Suzanne (4); Léa Furmanski (46) and her three children, Esther (15), Bernard
(10), and Adolphe (6); Elise Ben Racasser (48), also with three children,
Eliane(17), Yolande (15), and Claude (14); Esther Kaim (38) and her five
children, Lydie (13), Roger (12), Edmond (9), Arlette (5), and
Hélène (2); and Esther Szatten (44) and her six children, Reine (17), Lydia (14),
Florine (13), Carmen (11), Mireille (10), and Serge (9).
Convoy 36, September 23, 1942 (Drancy)
Convoy 36 deported 213 children, 132 boys and 81 girls. The majority
– at least 170 – were born in France. They were all from the Occupied
Zone. Thirty-five were from Paris, held at Drancy; 37 from Beaune-la-Rolande;
36 from Lorraine, held at the Lalande camp; and 16 from Poitiers. The convoy
also included 17 children from the Bordeaux area. Of the almost 100 children
under 10, 8 were born in 1941 and 4 in 1942. There were 16 sublists, with a
total of 1,037 names for this convoy.
1. Drancy 2 – 168
names. These were people residing in the Paris area, including at least 56
Poles, 40 Greeks, 24 French, and 12 Russians. Some were young children alone.
Blanche (11) and Thérèse (7) Chabelski; 8-year-old twins Esther
and Germaine Domb; Marcel Fiszben (3); Léon Mitlick (6); Paul Palinsky
(3); Esther Prync (1); Georges Rosenberg (3); and Gisele Schapiro (9). Perla
Weinstadt (38) was with her 2-year-old daughter, Yvette, and her 4-month-old
infant, Emmanuel.
2. Merignac – 67 names. This group
included children without their parents, such as two Darvas children, Olga (8)
and Jean-Claude (8 months); and Charlotte (12) and Max (6) Misser. Gisele Krief
(23) was a young mother with her baby, Mireille (9 months).
3. "R"
(Reserve) List – 19 names. Children alone included Adèle Kalisz
(3) and Robert Kerszenblat (2). Cécile Legard (39) was with her
children, Régine (10) and Jacques (3).
4. Last-minute
additions – 17 names. One was listed simply as "a child named Jean";
another, "Gervais Jean" (?). Dyler Régine was 3 months old and was
without a mother or father to hold her and soften the horror of this final
trip.
5. Poitiers – 63 names. This group, too, had children
with and without parents. Among the latter were Eva Braff (4), Maurice Kormann
(5), Paulette Kraut (3), and Ariane Kristeller (4). Those with parents included Marcel (3) and
Léon (5) Bulka, Serge Schapiro (2), and Hélène Szirrik
(2).
6. Besançon – 4 names.
7.
Clairvaux – 53 names, without date of birth or nationality.
8. Belfort – 15 names of Dutch and Polish deportees. There
were some couples.
9. Drancy 1 – 96 names. This list
included the Wolfowiez children, Hélène (18), Fryda (11), Olga
(6), and Joseph (4).
10. Special list – 4 names.
11. Beaune-la-Roland/Barrack 18 – 118 names of
people transferred to Drancy on September 15 and 21. All were French; the
majority were men. The group included a grandfather, Isaac Hirsch, and his
grandson, Lucien (4). Among the many in their 60s, one name, that of
René Blum, is marked with a red cross.
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CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST A memorial
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