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lists that were divided into sub-lists
by geographic origin. Others came from documents in departmental archives
noting the departure for Drancy of a convoy of Jews from a particular place.
For the period October 1942 to June 1943, the assembly centers noted in the
Drancy registers are the places where Jews arrested by French police were
regrouped and sent on to Drancy. They include more local assembly points than
the registers show for the period July 1943 to August 1944, when Drancy had
come under German administration. For this later period, the registers show the
various German security services which sent arrested Jews to Drancy, such as SD
(Sicherheitsdienst) Lyons, SD Vichy, SD Rennes, SD Limoges. SD personnel were
most often based at the seats of regional prefectures or in their sub-offices,
such as SD Annemasse, SD Chambéry, or SD Perpignan.
Historic Notes about Each
Convoy
The histories of each deportation convoy, including
the total number of children under age 18 and the proportion of girls and boys
it carried, are based on information contained in the Mémorial
and in Le Calendrier de la Persécution des Juifs de France
(1993). They have been prepared with a view to evoking, often with new
documentation, the problems faced by Jewish children in France during the war.
The figures given for the numbers of children in each convoy may differ
slightly from the summary table at the end of the convoy histories; the summary
is based on the latest verified information.
The Children's
Photographs
Public appeals for photographs of the
children began in 1993. They were broadcast on Jewish radio programs and
published in the Jewish press in France and as well in Belgium, Switzerland,
Germany, Austria, Israel, the United States, and Australia. (I was told that
one appeal made its way to an Internet bulletin board.) I wrote hundreds of
personal letters to the members of the FFDJF who were plaintiffs in the cases
against Kurt Lischka, the Paris SiPo-SD chief, and Jean Leguay, the Vichy
police delegate in Paris, and to all those who wrote after publication of the
1978 Mémorial and who might have had brothers or sisters who were
deported. We also asked the Holocaust Memorial in Washington, D.C., to appeal
for photographs from Jews who had come to the United States from France or who
were related to Jews deported from France.
We collected some of the
photographs directly. I researched and copied some photographs preserved at the
Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and in various French government archives. Regine and
Maurice Lippe and Annette Zaidman, members of the FFDJF, researched the
children's photographs displayed on family tombstones in the Bagneux and Pantin
cemeteries near Paris. Maurice Lippe photographed the tombstones. I wrote the
captions that accompany the photographs, using whatever information – some
of it quite meager – was available.
The first French edition of
this children's memorial was published in October 1994, with faces of 1,536 of
the children in photographs. More photos were received, and a second edition,
with pictures of 1,834 children, was published in March 1995. A supplement with
an additional 497 photographs was published in January 1996, and we have since
obtained 172 more photos – so that we have
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CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST A memorial
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