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of French Jews. Unlike
that earlier convoy, however, which had been sent from Pithiviers to avoid
attention, convoy 48 left from Drancy. But as in the Loiret (Pithiviers),
French police cooperated with the SS to assure the departure of a thousand
French people.
The departure of convoy 48 marked the end of a
three-month period at Drancy described in the letters of 18-year-old
Louise Jacobson. She and a group of young
people, with much spirit and courage, strove to overcome the conditions of
internment at Drancy through the creation of an intense intellectual life.
Jacobson's photograph and a copy of one of her letters is included in this
book.
This list is in very poor condition. Perforations by the file
container meant that some names had to be reconstructed. The list is divided
into three sublists:
1. Drancy/Stairway 2 – 388
names. There were many families, including Haïm (49) and
Hélène (48) Leiba and their children, Adèle (23), Marcel
(21), Jacqueline (16), André (15), and Paulette (9); Rebecca and Isaac
Alvo and their four children, Juliette (18), Victoria (17), Jacques (11), and
Rachel (7); Mendel (58) and Mindla (50) Arm and their seven children, Hinda (19), Marie (16), Berthe
(15), Marcel (13), 10 year-old twins Charles and Jeannine, Paulette (7), and
Daniel (5); Esther Mantel (36) and her four children, Salvator (14),
Renée (10), Rosette (8), and Jacqueline (1). The four Fanchel children
– Maurice (15), Suzy (13), Fernand (11), and infant Raymond (6 months)
– were deported without their parents. Other children without parents
included Abraham Epstein (7) and his brother Charles (5); Christian Avram (1);
Edia Jussim (4); Jean and Serge Senders (6); Régina (10) and Edith (3)
Wetzstein; and Ginette (7) and Rose (5) Zymand.
2.
Drancy/Stairway 1 – 340 names. Among them: Pierre Grumbach
(11); Pierre Gumpel (10); Céline Landau (10) and her sister Fanny (7);
Alice Levy (10); Suzanne Levy (2); and Rachel (12) and Lea (13) Zawodowicz.
3. Drancy/Stairway 3 – 263 names. Among the children
were Berthe Alexandre (3); Philippe Nozek (10); Léon (6) and Esther (10)
Szejmann; Szmul Weberspiel (2); Roland Fanchel (5); Claude Attali (9); Jean (4)
and Claude (2) Silberschmidt; and Pauline (14), Raymonde (13), and Jeannine
(11) Yakir.
Convoy 49, March 2,
1943 (Drancy)
Convoy 49 deported the largest number of older
people of all the deportation transports: 710 people over 60 were accompanied
to their deaths with 34 children under 18. Almost all of the deportees had been
taken in the large February roundups in Paris.
Convoy 50, March 4, 1943 (Drancy)
Convoy 50 was a
"reprisal" convoy, following the killing in Paris of two officers of the
Luftwaffe. It took close to a thousand people, some to Maidanek and the great
majority to Sobibor, the former for immediate killing and the latter for slave
labor. Indications are that most were killed at Sobibor; only four people from
this convoy were alive at the end of the war. Convoy 50 included ten
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CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST A memorial
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