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Convoy 67, February 3, 1944 (Drancy)
Convoy 67
deported 189 children, 111 boys and 78 girls. A major source of victims for
this especially large convoy of 1,214 people was the January 22 roundup in
Paris, which gave Brunner more than 600 bodies. The others came from various
transports from cites around the country, especially Lyons, Grenoble, Nice,
Rheims, and Bordeaux.
Among the deportees in convoy 67 were Rosalie
Ehrenkranz (43) and her seven children, Jacques (15), Suzanne (12), Daniel
(10), Jules (7), Armand (6), René (5), and Thérèse (2).
Other mother-children groups included Rosalie Benarrosh (35) and her three
children, Claude (11), Roger, (8), and Micheline (3); Hélène
Buchholz (40) and her four children, Emile (15), Alexandre (12), Nicole (10),
and Paul (5); Irène Mark (34) and her three children, Lucien (9), Paul
(5), and Véronique (3). There were 12 Schwartzmann children (10 under age 18), 4 boys and 8 girls,
originally from Tinqueux (Marne).
This convoy included the three boys
of the Petit Collège d'Avon, close to Fontainebleau, arrested on January
15, 1944, with their teacher, Father Jacques (see pages
84 and 1697). This painful drama was the subject of Louis Malle's
film, Au revoir les enfants ("Goodbye, children"). Hans-Helmut Michel,
age 13, was the youngest of the three boys. He was German, the son of a
Frankfurt doctor who committed suicide in 1933 when the Nazis came to power.
Michel's mother was taken during the Vel d'Hiv roundups. Sheltered by the
priest of Saint-Sulpice, Michel was hidden at Notre-Dame de Sion in Melun, a
town south of Paris. From there he was sent to the Petit Collège under
the name Henri Bonnet. David Schlosser, 15, the second boy, took the name
Maurice Sabatier. He was French; his mother was deported early in 1943 on
convoy 48. The oldest was Jacques Halpern, 17, alias Jacques Dupré. His
Polish parents were deported in August 1942, on convoy 15, and he was left on
his own. He was also hidden at Notre-Dame de Sion.
Convoy 68, February 10, 1944 (Drancy)
Convoy 68
deported 295 children, 137 boys and 158 girls. Of the 1,500 victims on this
convoy, 480 came from a massive roundup in Paris on February 3; another 425
were from roundups centered in Poitiers. More came from Lyons, Grenoble, and
Nice.
Among the family groupings were five Baer children,
Hélène (10), Berthe (8), Yvette (6), Irène (4), and
Ginette (1); and three Baer sisters from a different family, Jacqueline (10),
Nicole (7), and Marie (4). Mothers with children included Fayga
Cantkert (49) with Ida (17), Paul (11),
Suzanne (8), and Frida (5); Rosa Davy (38) and her four children, Maurice (13),
7-year-old twins Léon and Joseph,and Roger (3); Bluma Landau and her
seven children, Hendesa (15), Suzanne (13), Hélène (11), Salomon
(10), Daniel (8), Maurice (7), and Victor (1); Rajzla Maman (28) and her four
children, Lili (10), Anna (8), Simha (4)and Sami (2); Thérèse
Metzer (32) who also had four children, Germaine (14), Gilbert (11), Suzanne
(5), and Bertrand (3). Sophie Mizrahi
(40) had her four, Victoria (19), Rachel (14), Lucien (10), and Jean-Claude
(3); Esther Pelcman also had four
children, the same ages as the Mizrahi family, Eva (19), Simone (14), Maurice
(10), and Pauline (3).Régina Zaks was with her four, Maurice (16),
Daniel (10), Claudette (6), and Eliane (4).
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CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST A memorial
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