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Cohen and their children, Benjamin (7) and Eliane (3);
Léopold (35) and Barbe (28) Schvimmer and their little girls, Suzanne
(4), Ginette (3), and Claudette (1). And there were children without parents:
Rosa Sztarkand (21), with brother Ignace (16) and sisters Irène (13) and
Bertina (12); and Allegra (6) and Lina (3) Sion.
3.
Drancy/Stairway 2 – 245 names, mainly Poles and Romanians.
Breina Kantorowicz (34) was with her six children, Charles (10), Georgette (8),
Félix (7), Rosa (5), Léa (3), and Mina (1). Louise Warga (4),
Marceline Kogan (2), and Françoise Zajdenberg (2) were among the
children without parents.
4. Drancy/Stairway 3 – 135
names, including Poles, Greeks, Romanians, Germans, and Russians. Among them,
one name was marked with a cross next to it: "Rudolf Herskovitz, according to
the report of the SD Commando of Châlons-sur-Marne of November 20, jumped
from the train and had his two legs cut off."
5. Last-minute
additions – 37 names, among them one Bolivian and many children.
Convoy 46, February 9, 1943
(Drancy)
After a three-month break, the deportation transports were
resumed. By early February 1943, Drancy held about 4,000 Jews. More than half
were French, arrested for various infractions of anti-Jewish regulations. The
German defeat at Stalingrad sharpened the Gestapo's zeal for filling trains
with Jews. Convoy 46 deported 126 children under 18, 73 boys and 53 girls.
Four-fifths had been born in France, and most lived in or around Paris.
The following names give some feel for the many families among the
deportees: Chaja Zausnica (43) and her
seven children, Chana (21), Malka (19), Fajga (16), Brana (14), Irma (9), Samy
(6), and Alain (3); Faiga Gonsirek and her three children, Henri (8), Georges
(6), and Bernard (4); Rykla Gutkind and her two children, Jacqueline (7) and
Denise (4). Maurice (14) and Nelly (10) Katz were together; Rita Offenberg (4) alone. A few others:
Fryda Knopf (32) with Nathan (5) and Sarah (2); Sura Kuzka (34) with Julien (4)
and Georges (2); Marie Midowicz with Henri (10), Ludovic (8), and Ginette (6);
Minkla Narva with Henri (17), Léon (15), and Suzanne (2); Blanche Rab
with Maurice (13), Andre (8), and Isaac (4); and so many
others….
Convoy 47, February 11,
1943 (Drancy)
Once the deportations were resumed, it took only
48 hours before a second convoy was underway to Auschwitz. The Gestapo had just
launched a second large roundup in and around Paris, carried out over three
days from February 10 to 12 by the Paris police, to replenish the supply of
Jews to Drancy. Buses filled with Jews just rounded up actually crossed paths
with those filled with Jews bound for the train station at Bourget-Drancy for
the journey to Auschwitz.
There were 183 children on convoy 47, 84 boys
and 99 girls. Some of the children, foreign born, had been caught in the recent
Paris roundups, which had also been aimed at certain UGIF establishments.
Forty-two children were in this category.
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CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST A memorial
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