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convoys made by the
anti-Jewish section of the Gestapo after the fact, in July 1944, recorded two
convoys-convoy 40 and convoy 41 for November 3, 1942. But an exchange of
telegrams between Paris and Berlin made at the time of the deportations –
the end of October and the beginning of November1942 – mentioned only four
convoys: these actually did leave on November 4, 6, 9, and 11, and were
numbered convoy 40, convoy 42, convoy 44, and convoy 45.]
Convoy 42
deported 220 children, 120 boys and 100 girls. As with convoy 40, there was a
large proportion of children because of the roundups in the Occupied Zone in
the middle of October. From the Paris area there were 12 children; from Angers,
7; from Melun, 12; from Poitiers, 45; from Angoulême, 14; from Le Mans,
27; from Rouen, 9; from Nancy, 56; from Bordeaux, 13; and from Creusot, 6.
These are portions of the 18 sublists for this convoy:
Drancy 1
– 90 names, largely Poles, Russians, and Romanians. Many were over 50. A
grandmother, Augusta Fradkin (64), was deported with her grandson Mozes (5);
Leia Sacagni (52) with her three
children, Maria (19), Simon (13), and Sarah (11).
2. Drancy 2
– 54 names. This list included Joseph (10) and Hermann (6) Berner; Charles
(11) and Joseph (6) Zylber; and several
adolescents.
3. Drancy 3 – 13 names, including many
Russians. Several were over 80.
4. Poitiers – 200 names.
They were among the 617 Jews arrested in mid-October by the SiPo-SD commando of
Poitiers. The ones here were transferred to Drancy and deported with this
convoy. There were families, children, and old people. They included: Isidore
(35) and Frieda (37) Bernstein and their three children, Yolande (11), Salomon
(9), and Sarona (8); Robert Fisch (65) and his grandson Newi (5); young
Régine Herschlikowitz (4), alone; Sabine (9) and Léon (5)
Klinger; Hélène and Joseph (5) Weiss; Golda Vogel and her three children, Lomi (12), Marie
(7), and Bertha (8 months). The very elderly included Chana Warsjawoska (85),
Hersz Mazur (80), Sylvia Lesowski (87), and Armand Kahn (81).
5.
Haute-Saône – 8 names. Seven were German; all were elderly.
6. Angers – 45 names. They were mainly Poles and were among
the 296 people arrested in Angers in mid-October. Among the children: Maurice
(8) and Henriette (1) Josefowicz.
7. Angoulême – 55 names. Among them were several
children: Bernard (11), Solange (5), and Henri (2) Lachmann; Eliane Hershkowiez
(3); and Chan (9) and Isidore (3) Szpigel.
8. Alençon
– 16 names.
9. Le Creusot – 25 names. Children without
parents included Théodore (13) and Thérèse (4) Reicher,
arrested at Montceau-les Mines; and Alexandre Messinger (4). Marcel (11) and
Berthe (3) Krauze were deported with their mother, Renée (35).
10. Dijon – 13 names, from among the 122 Jews arrested in
Dijon in mid-October.
11. Chalon-sur-Saône – 8 names.
12. Le Mans – 62 names. This group contained Poles and
French, such as Fanny Chimelnski (37) and her three children, Julius (13),
Marcel (9), and Marthe (6); Ernestine and Evelyne Fizycki, 12-year-
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CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST A memorial
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