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Also deported with
this convoy was Raymond-Raoul Lambert
(49), head of the UGIF Southern Zone, his wife, Simone (39), and their four
children. Their deportation at this time was because of Lambert's protests to
the Vichy government.
Convoy 63,
December 17, 1943 (Drancy)
Convoy 63 deported 100 children
under 18, 57 boys and 43 girls. Two-thirds were arrested from the countryside.
André Baur, head of the UGIF
Northern Zone, was on this convoy with his wife, Odette (33), and their four
children, Pierre (10), Myriam (9), Antoine (6), and Francine (3). A few of the
many others from the list were the four Erdstein children, Renée (9), Suzanne (7), Jean (4),
and Pierre (2); the three Eskenazi
children, Paulette (15), Isaac and Joseph (9); Marie-Thérèse
Neuwerth (1); Gilbert Segal (1); Monique (7) and Francine (1) Weil; Jacques
Attas (2); Rita (13) and Léon (12)
Calef; Michel Carcassonne (11); Solange (14) and Jeanine (4) Chouraqui; and
Fernande (11), Claude (7), and Colette (5) Cohen.
Convoy 66, January 29, 1944 (Drancy)
[There
was no Convoy 65. See Klarsfeld, Memorial, p. 490.]
This
first convoy of 1944 deported 206 children under 18, 105 boys and 101 girls.
Convoy 66 carried a total of 1,155 Jews to Auschwitz. Many were among the early
victims of a new wave of massive roundups carried out throughout France, such
as the Bordeaux roundup of January 10. Temporary transit centers were set up to
hold those captured while they waited to be sent to Drancy, in such places as
Charleville, Grenoble, Vichy, Nice, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Lyons, Creil, and
Toulouse.
Among the children were Rachel (9) and Monique (5) Ayzenberg;
Michael Baum (3); Louise Baumel (2); the four Bielawska sisters, Rachel (19),
Estéra (17), Berthe (14), and Hélène (8); the three Borne
brothers, Emile (19), Joseph (18), and Albert (13); the Carasso brothers,
Gérard (7) and Alain (6); four Dray children, David (11), Léon
(8), Jacqueline (4), and baby Michel (1); and Jean Chaloni, who was also only a
year old. Included were Regina Flaster and her six children, Jacques (13),
Netti (11), Frida (10), Sarah (9), Maurice (6), and Marcel (1). Other children
were José Greilsammer (3); 2-year old Michael Gross and his 2 month old
brother Alain; Jacques (12) and David (10) Gutman; Monique (3) and Jeanine (1)
Haddad; and Rachel (13), Fanny (12), and Renée (5) Haïm. Roiza
Kersztenbaum (30) was with her five children, Hélène (8), Michel
(6), Monique (4), Jacqueline (2), and Nathan (1). There were three Lipschitz
boys, Paul (15), Jacques and Marcel (10); three Léons, Danielle (12),
Evelyne (8), and Lionel (4); four Lisoprawskis, Rosa (11), Paulette (9), James (9), and Daniel
(4); Jean (9) and Odette (6) Navon; Lazare (15), Marcel (13), and Salomon (12)
Palencia; four Partouche children, Yvette
(16), Estelle (12), Andrée (9), and Gérard (4). Louis (44) and
Estreya (39) Torres were with their nine children, Esther (17), Ernest (16),
Marcel (14), Louise (13), Edmond (10), Raymond (8), Rachel (7), Simone (5), and
Louis (3).
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CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST A memorial
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