The Klarsfeld documents record all the transports (in French : "convoi") of Jews from Paris to the "East".
The five reports below concern the transports of Lucienne, Marie, Hans, Erwin, Alexandre and Milan Porges.

Source : Archives of the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (CDJC) in Paris

This convoy, which left from Pithiviers, was composed exclusively of men, like the first two convoys. Among the 999 men that the Germans listed by nationality: 937 Poles, 20 Germans, 20 Czechs, 8 undetermined, 5 Russians, 5 Romanians, 1 Austrian, 1 stateless.

The age of these men ranged between 20 and 54 years and, for the great majority of them (795), they were aged from 31 to 42 years.

The list is extremely difficult to decipher. The entries are recorded longitudinally. They give the surname, first name, date and place of birth, family situation, nationality, profession, and address of the deportees.

Based on the addresses, we observe that these were exclusively people residing in the Paris region and, like the deportees of the two previous convoys, people living in the same arrondissements (3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 18th, 19th, 20th) arrested under the same circumstances, during the operations of May and August 1941.

The list was signed on June 22, 1942, by the commander of the Pithiviers camp, with two corrections from June 24 concerning the replacement of five men.

Several Gestapo documents concern this convoy: XXVI-31 of June 16; XXVb-38 of June 17 and 18; XXVb-40 of June 25 is a telex from the Sipo-SD (Nazi police) command of Orléans, addressed to the anti-Jewish section (IV J) of the Gestapo in Paris, announcing the sending to IV J of the list of the 1,000 Jewish men.

XXVI-35 of June 19 gives the train schedule: Pithiviers 6:15, Troyes 11:35, St-Dizier 15:14, Revigny 16:29.

Indeed, the regulatory telex sent on June 25 to Eichmann in Berlin, to the Camps Inspectorate in Oranienburg, and to the commander of Auschwitz, indicates that the convoy did leave Pithiviers at 6:15 a.m. as planned a week earlier. This telex specifies that it concerns 1,000 Jews and that the convoy chief (Transport-führer) up to Neuburg (the border) was Lieutenant Kleinschmidt.

On their arrival at Auschwitz, on June 27, the 1,000 deportees were given the registration numbers 41773 to 42772. On August 15, i.e., 7 weeks later, 557 were still alive; the mortality rate had reached 45% instead of 80% for the previous convoy.
This considerable difference is explained by the average age, about 5 years younger in this convoy than in the two previous ones, and above all probably by the Polish origin of more than 9/10 of the deportees, better able to withstand the appalling living conditions prevailing in the Auschwitz camp, located in Poland, than, for example, the 435 French Jews of convoy n° 3, which had departed only 3 days earlier.

To our knowledge, 51 survivors returned in 1945.

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Letter in which Dannecker informs Eichmann in Berlin that the 3 planned convoys (June 23, 25, 28) will be able to depart and that 3,000 Jews are ready to be sent on their way:

This convoy left the Pithiviers camp with a contingent of 809 men and 119 women, totaling 928 deportees. A telex from the Sipo-SD (Nazi police) command of Orléans confirms this on July 18 to the anti-Jewish section (IVJ) of the Gestapo in Paris. It also specifies that, among the deportees, 193 Jewish men and women had been sent by the Sipo-SD command of Dijon and that 52 others came from the Orléans command itself. The telex adds that two original lists were given to the convoy chief, gendarmerie Lieutenant Schneider.

The list of names is in an almost illegible state. It is on tissue paper and the names are nearly indecipherable; the carbon was purple. The name, first name, date and place of birth, profession, and town of residence are recorded. The spelling of the names is extremely fanciful.

Most of the deportees come from the Paris region.

The nationality is not specified. But by going through the deportees' places of birth, we observe that, in the great majority of cases, they are Polish localities.

The most populated age bracket is between 33 and 42 years (550 out of 928 deportees). Adolescents between 16 and 22 years old accompany their parents; there are 141 of them. There are even some younger children, such as Marie-Louise Warenbron, born in Paris on April 27, 1930, who is only 12 years old, or Rebecca Nowodworski, born in Luxembourg on September 13, 1928, who is not yet 14.

Two Gestapo documents concern this convoy: XXVb-65 of July 14 and the regulatory telex (XXVb-75) of July 17, sent from Paris by the anti-Jewish section of the Gestapo to Eichmann in Berlin, to the Camps Inspectorate in Oranienburg, and to the commander of Auschwitz. In this telex, it is stated that the convoy left Pithiviers on July 17 at 6:15 a.m. with 928 Jews, including 119 women.

On their arrival at Auschwitz on July 19, the 809 men were given the registration numbers 48880 to 49688 and the 119 women the registration numbers 9550 to 9668.

There would have been, in 1945, 18 survivors from this convoy.

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The note of July 18 from the Sipo-SD of Orléans informing the anti-Jewish section in Paris that 809 Jewish men and 119 Jewish women had been deported to the East on July 17:

On August 17, SS non-commissioned officer Heinrichsohn drafted the regulatory telex sent to Eichmann in Berlin, to the Concentration Camps Inspectorate in Oranienburg, and to the commander of the Auschwitz camp.

He announces to its recipients that, on the same day at 8:55 a.m., convoy 901/1 of 1,000 Jews left the Le Bourget/Drancy station, headed for Auschwitz, under the command of Stabsfeldwebel Brandt.

This telex bears the call number XLIX-39 in the CDJC archives. Two other documents from the anti-Jewish section of the Gestapo relate to this convoy. They are dated August 7 and August 10 and bear the call numbers XXVb-120 and 121.

Among 997 departees, the Germans counted: 497 French, 230 Germans, 134 Poles, 56 undetermined, 30 Austrians, 7 Russians, 6 Turks, 5 stateless, 3 Dutch, 3 English, 2 Romanians, 2 Czechs, 1 Belgian.

Women are slightly more numerous in this convoy than men. This is the second convoy in which young Jewish children left France toward the most terrifying of fates: 207 boys under 16, including 154 under 10: 3 aged 2, 9 aged 3, 11 aged 4, 18 aged 5, 11 aged 6, 18 aged 7, 18 aged 8, 35 aged 9, 34 aged 10.

There were 323 girls under 16. Among them 185 under 10: 3 aged 2, 17 aged 3, 14 aged 4, 17 aged 5, 24 aged 6, 24 aged 7, 37 aged 8, 24 aged 9, 25 aged 10.

Apart from these children, who made up more than half of the convoy, there were over 300 German adults, from the Les Milles camp, in the unoccupied zone.

The lists drawn up on tissue paper and in carbon copy are in very poor condition. Those concerning the children bear the indication "Pithiviers".

The children are classified by railway car. The date and place of birth are indicated, as well as nationality and sometimes address.

Car 1: 7 children, including 3 Schorrs, Claire 11, Joseph 8, Madeleine 7.

Car 4: 62 names; 56 children and 6 women: Lea Frandji, 46, from Constantinople and her 3 children, Suzanne 16, Fanny 15, Marie 12; the 3 Monica children, Mina 11, Hélène 6, Joseph 4; the 3 Piotek children, Esther 15, Suzanne 13, Jacques 10.

Car 5: 46 children and 4 women. Among them: the 5 Jakubovitch children, arrested in the 14th arrondissement and deported together, without their parents, the eldest Samuel 9, Anna 7, Rebecca 6, Armand 4, Marguerite 2. The same applies to the 3 Ajdelsztejns, Maurice 11, Georges 8 and Jeannette 3; to the little Kacs, Albert 11, Emile 5 and Régine 4; to the Goldcymer children, Sabine 10, Adèle 8 and Abraham 4.

Car 6: contains 42 children and 4 women. 4 Jubiler children, Rachel 14, Rose 6, Jeannette 3 and Leon even younger but without a date of birth; the 3 Kreimer sisters, Anna and Berthe 16, Jeannette 9; the Aufrechter children, Cécile 14, Henriette 11 and Georges 7. One mother, Jochwata Brabander, 46, accompanies her 5 children, Anna 15, Berthe 12, Maurice 6 and the 3-year-old twins Françoise and Jacques.

Car 7: 33 children and 2 women.

Car 8: 48 children and 7 women, including Esther Rozenholc, 42, who takes her 4 children: Fanny 14, Leon 9, Suzanne 8 and Lise 4.

Car 9: 45 children and 8 women, including Bajla Biglajzer and her 4 children: Bernard 17, Lucienne 9, Paul 7, Claude 3. Her neighbor, Pauline Poznanski, living in the same building at 86 Fbg St-Denis, leaves at 27 with her 3 children, Esther 6, Berthe 4 and Albert 3. The 3 Magier children, from 81 rue de Flandre, leave without their mother: Hélène is 11, Elie 10 and Geneviève only 3.

Car 10: 49 children and 5 women. Among them, the 4 Wierzba children, Claire 18, Sarah 15, Jeanne 13 and Jacques 10; Rosa Razencwajg, 41, takes her 4 children, Jacqueline 10, Frida 9, Hélène 8 and Bernard 4.

Car 11: 49 children and 6 women.

Car 12: 57 children and 3 women: the 3 Gelbert girls, Suzanne 15, Paulette 9 and Simone 6; the 4 Binenstock children, Chana 12, Henri 9, Dora 5, Jacqueline 3. Ruchla Skorupka, 32, accompanies her 5 children, Suzanne 10, the 8-year-old twins Jacob and Henri, Samuel 6 and Paul 5.

Car 13: 46 children and 1 woman. Among them the 3 Goldstein children, from 22 rue des Écouffes, Georges 8, Bernard 7 and Simon 2; the 3 Slamowic, from 14 rue des Nonains d'Hyères, Bernard 10, Jacques 5 and Denise 3; the 3 Grajcar, from 4 rue Piat, Thérèse 12, Maurice 8 and Claudine 4.

Car 14: 46 children and 5 women, including Szyfa Sznurman, 33, and her 3 children, Henri 10, Nicole 6, and Rosette 2; Chindla Moszkowisz, 34, and her 3 girls, Marcelle 11, Rachel 10 and Ginette 2; Dora Starowiejski, 35, and her 3 children, Ida 11, Madeleine 8 and Leon 3. Deported without parents, the 5 little Winters, Louise 15, Aline 11, Rachel 7, Micheline 5 and Maurice 4; the 3 Cynaber children, Georges 12, Lucien 10 and Denise 6.

Car 15: 30 children and 12 women. Among them 5 Weldmann children, Hélène 24, Charlotte 18, Fanny 16, Fernande 14, Albert 8. Tamara Zaborowski, 28, leaves with her 5 children, Thérèse 11, Raymonde 8, Rolande 6, Micheline 3 and Marcel 2.

The Nazis had the impudence to place on a list entitled "last-hour opters" 3 people: they are children aged 8, 7 and 5!

Another list entitled "opters" contains 16 people, including 7 children.

There are also 301 deportees who had been transferred from the Les Milles camp, near Marseille, to Drancy on August 11. Mostly Germans, Poles and Austrians. They left their children behind, but were deported with the children coming from Pithiviers. The Germans had indeed decided not to deport convoys exclusively composed of children, but to mix them with adults, in order not to disturb the civilian populations, who would see these convoys pass. This was Eichmann's response to the request from the anti-Jewish section in Paris (8.11.1942 / XXVb-123).

Below we provide some excerpts from a report concerning the departure from the Les Milles camp of internees handed over by Vichy to the Nazis and transferred from the so-called "free" zone to the occupied zone, from which they would soon leave for Auschwitz. This report dated August 24 bears the call number CCXIII-115. It concerns the departures of August 11 and 13:

The last list of this convoy n° 20 is entitled "T" and contains 44 names. On their arrival at Auschwitz, two days later, on August 19, only 65 men were selected with the registration numbers 60113 to 60177, while 34 women were left alive with the registration numbers 17679 to 17713. All the rest of the convoy, at least 900 people, including all the children, was immediately gassed.

To our knowledge, there were only 3 survivors of this convoy in 1945:
Leon Czewonogora, Simon Hochberger and Julius Nacht.

On September 7, 1942, SS non-commissioned officer Ernst Heinrichsohn drafted the telex signed by his superior, Heinz Röthke, head of the anti-Jewish section of the Gestapo in France. He announces to Eichmann, to the KZ Inspectorate and to Auschwitz, that convoy D 901/24 of 1,000 Jews left the Le Bourget/Drancy station at 8:55 a.m., under the command of Sergeant Krüger. This telex bears the call number XXVb-155 at the CDJC.

Among the 893 deportees that the Germans listed by nationality, we count: 317 undetermined, 242 Polish, 188 Germans, 104 Austrians, 56 French, 24 Russians, 24 Czechs, 8 Luxembourgers, 8 Dutch, 6 stateless, 6 Belgians, 3 Romanians, 2 Lithuanians and 1 Serb.

The high number of undetermined is no doubt due to the haste of the Nazis, who did not examine the individual situation of deportees who arrived from the unoccupied zone a few hours before the departure for Auschwitz and whose age was not even indicated.

This convoy contains 435 women and 565 men. But, for 133 women, the age is not indicated; the same for 145 men. Among the 725 deportees whose age is known, we count 123 children under 17 (71 girls and 51 boys). The most populated age bracket is, for the men, between 36 and 46 years (157) and, for the women, between 31 and 40 years (87).

The list, typed on tissue paper, partly with black carbon, partly with blue carbon, is in very poor condition.

This list is divided into 7 sub-lists:

1/ "Drancy": 111 departees. These are isolated persons, including children, such as Thérèse Dalfer 9, couples and families, such as the Griffs, Charlotte 38 and her 4 children, all born in Reims, Jeannette 9, Maurice 7, Simon 4 and Léon 2; such as Pela Micner 44 and her 3 children, Esther 19, Perla 16 and André 2; such as Genedla Rotzajt 37 and her 3 children, Suzanne 12, Henri 9 and Régine 2; such as Max 39 and Esther 38 Russak and their 5 children, Berthe 19, Irène 17, Salomon 16, Joseph 13 and Irène 12. Children deported without their parents, such as the 5 Irensteins, Nicole 13, Albert 11, Georges 9, Henri 5 and Jeannette 2.

2/ "various camps": 29 names, men, women and children coming from Le Vernet (24) and Gurs (5).

3/ "Belfort": 9 names, all Dutch, such as the Oostras, Henri 45, Maria 41 and their son Jacob 16.

4/ "unoccupied zone": 283 surnames and first names, without indication of age and nationality. Many families and many children, such as the 7 Engelbergs, the 4 Ginsburgs, the 5 Goldbergs, the 4 Herszons, the 5 Hirschels, the 4 Ibel-Weissners, the 4 Langs, the 4 Levins, the 4 Wolfs, the 5 Zysmans, etc.

5/ "departure of volunteers": 32 names, without date of birth. Among them also some children, since the Urbach family numbers 6 people. Most of these "opters" come from the Rivesaltes camp.

6/ "Les Milles camp": 488 departees. One page with 16 names (524 to 540; there are also 81 crossed-out names) is missing; it covered names ranging from SZ to WE. Many children are on this list, such as the Dymenborts, Jacob 21, Maria 12, Inda 3 and their parents; such as the Gelbarts, Max 13, Hélène 10, Paulette 3 and their parents; the 5 Golbergs, Jacques 14, Anna 13, Marie 11, Cécile 10 and Françoise 9; such as the 3 Rosners, Gisèle 11, Naphtalie 7, Rachel 6 and their parents.

7/ "last-hour departees": 77 people from various camps in the southern zone. Among them families, such as the Steinfelds, Herman 35, Mach 35 and their little girls Edith 13 and Charlotte 4; such as the Taubens, Abraham 39, Feder 32, Charles 10 and Anna 8; such as the Szulovitzes, Maurice 40, Rachel 39, Sylvia 9 and Myriam 8. Among these "last-hour" departees, no doubt mothers who fought to be able to leave with their children from whom they had been separated: for example, we note the name of Ida Lipka 39, while in the Les Milles camp sub-list we find 3 Lipkas, Daniel 45, Génia 17 and Ady 16.

Before the arrival at Auschwitz, which took place on September 9, an undetermined number of men was selected at Kosel (see end of the notice for convoy n° 24). At Auschwitz itself, 59 men were left alive with the registration numbers 63164 to 63222; the same was the case for 52 women who received the registration numbers 19243 to 19294. The rest of the convoy was immediately gassed.

The register of survivors at the Ministry of Veterans bears 12 names, all men. But in Belgium, I was able to obtain the list of deportees who returned to Belgium without going through France in 1945. I noted 22 additional names, also all men.

It should be noted that, exceptionally, the "calendar" of Auschwitz (Hefte von Auschwitz n° 3 (1960) p. 88) specifies for once that only 893 people arrived at Auschwitz. This indicates that about a hundred men were selected at Kosel. Moreover, Adam Rutkowski reports ("Le Monde Juif" n° 57-58 p. 61) testimony from a deportee of this convoy, Abram Strawczynski (DXXX-46), confirming that men under 50 disembarked at Kosel. In fact, this was not an isolated event, as had been believed, but a systematic selection of the men best fit to work, before the arrival at Auschwitz, and for the year 1942, starting with convoy n° 24 of August 26.

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Report by SS Major Herbert Hagen, the "thinking head" of SS General Oberg, on a meeting between Oberg and Laval on September 2, 1942.

The day after the departure of the convoy of February 9, Röthke, head of the anti-Jewish service of the Gestapo, drafts a detailed note, which bears the initials of its addressees, Knochen, the head of the security and security police services, the Sipo-SD, and General Oberg, head of the SS and German police in France (XXVc-204).

In his report, Röthke states: 837 French Jews are interned at Drancy following the round-ups of December 1941 and 1942, plus 661 French Jews who have broken the laws. The Reich Main Security Office, the RSHA, has given the green light for new transports of 1,000 Jews on the dates of February 9, 11, and 13, 1943. The 1st train left Le Bourget/Drancy on February 9 with 1,000 stateless Jews or those belonging to deportable categories. Likewise, the second convoy is ready to depart with 1,000 stateless Jews or those belonging to deportable nationalities. As for the 3rd transport, on February 13, it is to be made up of French Jews who have committed offenses and are interned at Drancy. In addition, the French police want to intern, by February 11, through some small round-ups, deportable Jews, that is to say foreigners. The French police themselves made this request because they wanted above all to avoid French Jews being deported. The representatives of the French police declared to Röthke that the question of the deportation of French nationals had not yet been settled between the French and German governments. Consequently, the French police will not assist in the deportation of French Jews, even those liable to a sentence, as long as this question is not resolved. Röthke concludes his note as follows:

"I replied to these gentlemen that this point of view nevertheless surprised me, given the fact that in 1942 we had already deported French Jews who had violated the legal provisions concerning them. Sauts (Préfet Leguay's collaborator, representative in the occupied zone of Bousquet, Vichy's Secretary of State for the Interior) further declared that, according to Bousquet's view, we could deport all the French Jews who are at Drancy, but that the French police could not help us. After a telephone decision from Bas (Knochen), I told Sauts that the transport of February 13 would leave in any case. I will make a further report to the RSHA tonight on the question of the transports."

After the reversal of the situation produced by the German defeat at Stalingrad, Vichy was, as we can see, becoming more cautious in its anti-Jewish collaboration with the Nazi police. Its reservations were apparent on the matter of the deportation of French Jews, who, in case of an Allied victory, could be reproached against it with greater judicial and emotional efficiency than that of the families of foreign Jews, who left behind only few traces in the French national community. Hence Vichy's reluctance to display French policemen too openly at the departure of transports of French Jews; hence also its imbecile cynicism: organizing round-ups of foreign Jews to avoid the deportation of French Jews. As Knochen writes in his telegraphic report on "The final solution of the Jewish problem in France", on February 12 (XXVI-71), to the head of the Reich Gestapo, Müller: in order to spare the French Jews from deportation, on February 11, the French police arrested and spontaneously handed over 1,300 foreign Jews, who will be deported just like the French Jews.

The second February convoy, that of the 11th, was made up of foreign Jews, as we have just observed. We counted 372 Poles, 154 French (mainly children born in France of foreign parents), 109 Russians, 65 Dutch, 64 Romanians, 56 Germans, 41 Turks, 40 Greeks, 32 Hungarians, 20 Czechs, 16 Austrians, 15 Belgians, 10 Bulgarians and a few others, including even one Jewish woman, born in Poland and of Chinese nationality by marriage. We counted 499 men, 477 women and 22 undetermined. There are 175 children under 18, including 123 under 12. 172 deportees are over 60 (elderly people were taken from asylums and brought to Drancy on February 10 along with children to fill out the numbers).

The usual telex sent to Eichmann and to Auschwitz is dated February 12; it bears the call number XXVc-205 and indicates that on the previous day at 10:15 a transport had left the Le Bourget/Drancy station bound for Auschwitz with 998 Jews, with as escort chief the Oberleutnant Kassel, of the Schutzpolizei, who drafted, on February 12, a report on attempts at escape that took place before the French border (XXVc-208 and see in "La lutte des Juifs en France" by A. Rutkowski, p.149-150). There were three attempts, all of which failed.

List n° 47 is in very poor condition. Many names are almost illegible, due to the fading of the characters on the tissue paper.

9 sub-lists:

1 "Romainville": this must concern foreign Jews who had broken the regulations or who were suspected of acts of resistance and were transferred from the Romainville fort to Drancy. 20.

2/ "Romainville-French": 16 people, of French nationality, in the same case as 1/.

3/ "Compiègne foreigners": 12 men transferred from the Compiègne camp to Drancy.

4/ "Compiègne-French": 39 men.

5/ "Drancy 1": 56 people, including several families, like Abraham 47 and Merla 45 Checisnki and their 4 children, Wolf 17, Eline 11, Anna 7 and Simon 4.

6/ "Drancy 2": 745 names, including 79 crossed out, i.e., 666 departees. Many families, of which most of the children are French: Henri Ayzenberg 2, Maxime Borenheim 3, Jeannette 4 and Hélène 2 Diamand, Samy Grin 9, Joseph Haber 7, Tony Jakovits 5, Hélène 8 and Simone 6 Zavidovitcz, Anna 6 and Lucette 3 Klein, Michel Zelicki 1, Gilles Lewinger 1, Madeleine Wais 1, Claudine Malach 3, Micheline Muller 1, Germaine 7 and Pierre 3 Roth, Jacqueline Kravtchik 2, Elie 9 and Colette 2 Salomon, Myriam 5 and Abel 2 Sinizer. Among the families: Elie 50 and Mathilde 38 Azouvi and their 3 children, Eva 17, Louisette 14 and Gaston 12; Samuel 45 and Gracia 37 Beraha and their 3 children, Albert 9, Michèle 8 and Monique 4; Georges 34 and Nessa 33 Erdel and their 3 children, Betty 4, Michèle 3 and Annie-Rose 2; Malki Eskenasi and her 4 children, Rose 12, Allegra 10, Albert 7 and Leon 6; Perla Goldsztajn with Micheline 2 and Françoise 1; Moise 44 and Perla 42 Kavayero and their 5 children, Sarah 19, Esther 16, Elie 14, Diamante 10 and Suzanne 6; Laja Kuperberg 35 and her 3 children, Farja 13, Esther 9 and Henri 1; Djaya Lerca 34 and her 3 children, Rebecca 12, Esther 8 and Isidore 4; Sarah Namer 47 and her 4 children, Maurice 19, Dora 15, Claire 12 and Fanny 9; Sarah Semel 34 with Salomon 2 and Isabelle who is only 9 months old; Louise Swarcbart and her baby Bernard; Zurek 42 and Golda 40 Wapniarz and their 3 children, Régina 7, Robert 3 and Joseph 1...

7/ "Drancy 3": 67 departees. Among the children, Georges 4 and Fernande 2 Blachmann; Berthe 13 and Denise 9 Lemel; Lucienne Porjes 1; Blanche Skrzydlak 8.

8/ "Hospital-Hospice-Orphanage": The Nazis filled out the numbers with the sick, the insane, the elderly and small children, all mixed in this list: Théodore Baera 82, Githel Mendelevitch 91, Esther Krimer 84, Caroline Neumann 82, Bertha Schmulevitz 84, Kiva Makline 80, Gitla Wasjlfisz 83, Fania Krinitchersky 86, Marie Dreyfuss 85, Maria Kohn 80, Peisa Linker 80 + 15 septuagenarians. Among the children: Edith Becker 12, Sarah Beznovennu 11, Berthold Bodenthal 8; Marguerite 14 and Simon 8 Bogaert; Ruth Buntmann 10, Esther Don 11, Jacques Fiszel 4, Victor Grumberger 6, Emile Hubert 12, Gaston Kahn 9, Marie-José and Henri 10 Klayming, Leib Kuzka 10, Sarah Lerer 12, Joseph 11, Zelman 8 and Jeanine 2 Lipszyc, Gisèle Messinger 12, Joseph 10 and Augusta 5 Skoulsky; Mina 9, Lola 6 and Simone 4 Sternchuss...

9/ "Last-hour departees": 19 people.

The conditions of this departure were so abominable that, from the Le Bourget/Drancy station onwards, one of the deportees, Linda Geber 64, succumbed; this is what we learn from a handwritten annotation by Röthke on the convoy list.

On arrival at Auschwitz, on February 13, 143 men were selected and received the registration numbers 102239 to 102280, as well as 53 women (35290 to 35342). All the rest of the convoy was immediately gassed. There were, in 1945, 10 survivors, including 1 woman.