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first time children make up part of the convoy:
"darunter erstmalig kinder." To the person who wrote the telex, the emphasis
was on young children because it was the first time that they were taken in
such numbers. Among the deportees were children born in each year of the1930s
through 1937: 13 born in 1930; 12 in 1931; 16 in 1932; 15 in 1933; 3 in 1934; 9
in1935; 10 in 1936; and 3 in 1937. Thus, the youngest were 5, 6, and 7 years
old.
Drancy
The list from Drancy contained 238 names. Many
were families from Paris. For example: Joseph (41) and Chaia (39) Grauszyc and
their four children, Estera (17), Abram (13), Mordka (12), and Rachel (10);
Czarna Ajzenberg (35) and her two children, Jeanne (10) and Jacques (6); Chana
Gutland and her three children, Salomon (12), Samuel (10), and Ida (5); Rojza
Honik (51) and her three children, Jechok (17) , Sarah (14), and Lucie 9 ;
Bajla Kaplan (36) and her three children, Rywka (15), Charles (12), and Elisa
(11); Israel (35) and Sarah Pinkus (41) and their three children, Moszek (14),
Fajla (12), and Rachel (9); Matza Polkowska (44) and her three children, Alfred
(16), Eva (15), and Esther (12). Some Jews were from the countryside – for
example, Machla (39) and Moise Borensztajn (41) and their three children,
Benjamin (15), Yolande (10), and Georges (6).
Convoy 20, August 17, 1942 (Drancy) Convoy 20 was the
first of seven large convoys of children who had been separated from their
parents but then deported with other adults to create the illusion that
families were being kept together. First brought to camps in the Loiret –
in this case, Pithiviers – they were taken back to Drancy, where they were
put into deportation convoys together with a few hundred adults from the
Unoccupied Zone. This convoy carried 584 children under 18, 358 girls and 226
boys. They ranged in age from 18 down to 2 – the youngest allowed by law.
The children were classified by railway car. The date and place of birth, the
nationality, and in some cases the addresses, were recorded on the deportation
lists.
Car 1 – 7 children. Three were from the same family:
Claire (11), Joseph (8), and Madeleine (7) Schorr.
Car 4 – 56 children and 6 women.
Léa Frandji (46) was from Istanbul and was with her three daughters,
Suzanne (16), Fanny (15), and Marie (12). Other family groups were three Monica
children, Mina (11), Hélène (6), and Joseph (4); and three Piotek
children, Esther (15), Suzanne (13), and Jacques (10).
Car 5
–46 children and 4 women. Among them were some groups of sisters and
brothers taken without their parents, including the Jakubovitches. The five children of that family were
arrested in Paris (in the 14th arr.) and deported without their parents.
Samuel, the oldest, was 9, followed by Anna (7), Rebecca (6), Armand (4), and
Marguerite (2). There were three other similar groups, each with three
siblings: Maurice (11), Georges (8), and Jeanette (3) Ajdelsztejn; Albert (11),
Emile (5), and Régine (4) Kac; and Sabine (10), Adèle (8), and
Abraham (4) Goldcymer.
Car 6 – 12 children and 4 women,
including the four children of the Jubiler family, Jeannette (3), the even
younger Léon (no birth date indicated), Rachel (14), and Rose (6). There
were three Kreimer sisters, Anna and Berthe,
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CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST A memorial
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