Auschwitz Memorial 2/n In 1942, the deportation of Jews was organized with the complicity and the support of a certain number of administrations and governments, in particular that of Marshal Pétain in France. In France, at the end of the negotiations concluded between the French administration and

Auschwitz Memorial 3/n the Nazi occupier, the raids of the summer of 1942 were carried out by the police and the gendarmerie throughout the territory, including where the occupier was not present. These mass arrests, which resulted in the handing over of tens of thousands of Jews to the German

Auschwitz Memorial 4/n authorities for deportation, marked a turning point. 1942 was the time of state collaboration. For the first time more men, women and children were arrested in broad daylight. The latter, the 4,000 children that the Nazis did not claim, would eventually be deported. The fate

Auschwitz Memorial 5/n of children is a symbol of this. It is the marker of genocide. The turning point of 1942 was also that of a section of public opinion. It is clear that indifference prevailed when the first anti-Semitic measures of 1940 and 1941 struck the Jews, in particular during the

Auschwitz Memorial 6/n promulgation of the first statute of the Jews in October 1940, without German pressure, by Marshal Pétain and his government. A part of the French expressed their disapproval, in particular after the marking by the yellow star in June 1942, then during the mass arrests of

Auschwitz Memorial 7/7 the summer of 1942. They then manifested themselves in the name of their conscience, in the name also of the humanist values ​​of France, the foundation of the values ​​of the Republic that Vichy had not succeeded in eradicating from the hearts of all.

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28 July 1941 | A French Jewish girl, Francine Finkielsztajn, was born in Paris. In July 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

On this day, a 5 year old Dutch Jewish girl was deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz. She was murdered in the gas chamber on her arrival. Her name was Esther Polak. Please support Auschwitz Memorial to reach their goal of 2 million followers

John Cocker 🇺🇦 Auschwitz Memorial Esther was born on 26 January 1937, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands to Emanuel and Rachel Polak. She and her family were taken to Westerbork, a transit camp for Dutch Jews, and then to Auschwitz. Esther was gassed there on July 29, 1942, at age five-and-a-half.

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