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FRENCH CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST

A memorial
Serge Klarsfeld  

 
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Simone JACOB was born on July 13, 1927, in Nice, where she lived at 1 rue Cluvier. She was arrested on March 30, 1944, with her parents, André and Yvonne, her sister Madeleine, age 21, and her brother Jean, 18; her other sister, Denise, who was in the Resistance, was deported to Ravensbrück. Simone, Madeleine, and their mother were deported to Auschwitz on convoy 71 of April 13, 1944. Jean and his father were deported on May 15, 1944, on convoy 73 which went to Kaunas (Kovno) in Lithuania and Tallin (Reval) in Estonia. In 1945, only the three sisters returned. Simone Jacob Veil later became president of the European Parliament and a minister in the French government.    
   

FRENCH CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST

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Serge Klarsfeld

 
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