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| Louise JACOBSON was 17 and studying for her
baccalaureate exam when she was arrested for not wearing the yellow star.
Imprisoned in Fresnes, the Parisian prison, on September 1, 1942, then in
Drancy, Beaune-la-Rolande, then Drancy again, Louise was deported to Auschwitz
on convoy 48 of February 13, 1943, where
she was murdered like most on that convoy. Louise wrote moving letters, full of
life and character (published by Serge Klarsfeld in 1989 in France as
Lettres de Louise Jacobson); they have since been adapted for the
theatre. In February 1996, the Italian newspaper l'Unita published these
letters in a widely distributed booklet. Louise Jacobson is France's Anne
Frank. Here are some excerpts from her first letter to her schoolmates in the
Hélène Boucher lycée in Vincennes, just outside of Paris,
and from her last letter to her sister Nadia: September 1942 – Fresnes
Prison – My darling friends. Once upon a time there was a wretched little
girl. I'm going to tell you a sad story, my dears. First, I should thank you
for going to see my father so quickly to find out what had happened to me,
which made me very happy. Since Monday, August 31st, |
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CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST A memorial
Serge Klarsfeld
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