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| Youra RISKINE was born in Paris on April 11,
1928, and was deported on convoy 55 of June
23, 1943. His schoolmate and friend Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, now a writer and
member of the Academie Française, once wrote in the newspaper Le Monde:
"At the lycée Louis-le-Grand, in 1943, the person who sat next to me,
and my best friend, was Youra Riskine. He was a Jew from Odessa. He was a
genius. He played Chopin better than Paderewski. He wrote crazy novels and the
class newspaper all by himself. One morning, he was no longer there. He had
been arrested by the French police. He would disappear; his convoy number is in
Klarsfeld's book. Having found his door closed, with a seal on it, I reported
my concern to the teacher. "No politics in class," he answered, considering
himself a humanist rather than a resister. "Let's get back to Lucretius," he
added. He couldn't let Riskine's disappearance delay or penalize the
contemplative study of classic literature: 40 years later, I'm still
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CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST A memorial
Serge Klarsfeld
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