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As a witness later recalled: 'I was on my way down the stairs when my sister shouted to me: It's the Germans, save yourself! I jumped out the window. I hid myself in a bush in the garden. I heard the cries of the children that were being kidnapped and I heard the shouts of the nazis who were carrying them away.' |
As a witness later recalled: 'I was on my way down the stairs when my sister shouted to me: It's the Germans, save yourself! I jumped out the window. I hid myself in a bush in the garden. I heard the cries of the children that were being kidnapped and I heard the shouts of the nazis who were carrying them away.' |
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Following the raid on their home in Izieu, the children were shipped directly to the [[Drancy deportation camp|"collection center" in Drancy]], then put on the first available train towards the concentration |
Following the raid on their home in Izieu, the children were shipped directly to the [[Drancy deportation camp|"collection center" in Drancy]], then put on the first available train towards the [[concentration camp]]s in the East. |
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Forty-two children and five adults were gassed in the concentration camp of [[Auschwitz]]. Two of the oldest children and [[Miron Zlatin]], the superintendent, ended up in [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]], and were killed by a firing squad. |
Forty-two children and five adults were gassed in the concentration camp of [[Auschwitz]]. Two of the oldest children and [[Miron Zlatin]], the superintendent, ended up in [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]], and were killed by a firing squad. |
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Revision as of 10:26, 26 February 2007
Izieu | |
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Location of  | |
| Country | France |
| Arrondissement | Belley |
| Canton | Belley |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 01193 / |
Izieu is a village and commune in the Ain département in central-eastern France on the Rhône River, located between the cities of Lyon and Chambery.
History
Izieu was the site of a Jewish orphanage during the Second World War. On April 6, 1944, three vehicles pulled up in front of the orphanage. The Gestapo, under the direction of the 'Butcher of Lyon' Klaus Barbie, entered the orphanage and forcibly removed the forty-four children and their seven supervisors, throwing the crying and terrified children on to the trucks.
As a witness later recalled: 'I was on my way down the stairs when my sister shouted to me: It's the Germans, save yourself! I jumped out the window. I hid myself in a bush in the garden. I heard the cries of the children that were being kidnapped and I heard the shouts of the nazis who were carrying them away.'
Following the raid on their home in Izieu, the children were shipped directly to the "collection center" in Drancy, then put on the first available train towards the concentration camps in the East.
Forty-two children and five adults were gassed in the concentration camp of Auschwitz. Two of the oldest children and Miron Zlatin, the superintendent, ended up in Tallinn, Estonia, and were killed by a firing squad.
One survivor of Auschwitz revealed during Klaus Barbie's trial what happened to the children: "I asked myself where were the children who arrived with us? In the camp there wasn't a single child to be seen. Then those who had been there for a while informed us of the reality. 'You see that chimney, the one smoke never stops coming out of ... you smell that odor of burned flesh ... ?'"
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