French children of the Holocaust : a memorial
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French children of the Holocaust : a memorial
New York University Press, c1996
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Mémorial des enfants juifs déportés de France
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Learn more about Serge Klarsfeld at klarsfeldfoundation.org.
During World War II, 11,000 Jewish children were deported from France to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps in convoys that continued rolling until August 18, 1944-the very day of the Paris uprising that ended with the city's liberation. The children were among more than 75,000 French Jews deported to the camps under the Nazi plan for the final solution of the Jewish question. Nearly all of the young victims-some less than two years old-were arrested by the French police on orders of the Vichy government and turned over to the Germans for deportation. Only a handful of the children survived.
In French Children of the Holocaust, Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld-the man who brought Klaus Barbie to justice in 1983-has created a volume of stunning documentary importance. Drawing together archival evidence pried with difficulty from the French government, family testimony and photographs solicited by advertisements in Jewish publications in Europe, Israel, and the United States, and the Nazi's own lists of deportees--which were discovered, fading and crumbling, by Klarsfeld in a French Jewish archive--this book represents the culmination of many volunteers' painstaking efforts to give testimony to the short lives of these Jewish children.
Photographs of over 1,500 of the children, gathered from their surviving relatives and family friends all over the world, bring life to their brief biographies. Included with each photograph is the name, age, place and date of birth, home address, and the date and brief history of the deportation convoys that transported them to the death camps.
This book is an invaluable reference for scholars of the Holocaust, signifying the last attempt to rescue these young victims of the Nazis from oblivion and to help them leave a permanent mark on history as individuals and as a group.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Author's Preface
Editors' Notes
Acknowledgments
Content and Style Guide
Jewish Children and the Holocaust in France
History and Chronology
Maps
The Rescue of Children by OSE
Deportation Convoys
Research and Documentation: Reconstructing the convoy lists
Names and Addresses of the 11,000 Children Deported, by Convoy
Convoy Histories
The Photographs of Jewish Children
Officials responsible for anti-Jewish actions in France
Terms and abbreviations
Index of all children
Index of children in photographs
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