Map plots French Jewish children taken by Nazis
Map plots French Jewish children taken by Nazis
A new interactive online map has helped visualize the horror of the Holocaust for French Jews by marking the address of every one of the 11,458 Jewish children deported from France between July 1942 and August 1944.
The new map underlines one of the darkest periods of French history when around 76, 000 Jews were deported from France to Nazi death camps.
If you zoom in on the map, published last month by a historian and Nazi hunter you will start to see tiny red dots appear on certain French streets. Each of those dots corresponds with a child or children who were ripped away from their families between July 1942 and August 1944 by the Nazis.
At 56 Cours Lafayette in Lyon 17-year-old Jacques Sciandra was taken. Further down the street at number 89, Dario Sarfati also was confiscated from his parents. These children were sent to death camps with the knowledge and sometimes help of French authorities during World War II.
http://www.thelocal.fr/20140217/jewish-children-france-nazis-map
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