Author: Klaus Barbie
Date: 6/4/1944
Countries: Germany, France
Topics: Holocaust, Auschwitz
Description: This document is a telex message from the "Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD" (Commander of the Security Police and the SD) Klaus Barbie about the raid on a Jewish children’s home in Izieu-Ain, called "Colonie Enfant."
41 Jewish children between the ages of 3 and 13 were arrested.
The entire Jewish staff (10 people, including 5 women) were also arrested.
Money or other valuables could not be secured.
The transport to Drancy would take place on April 7, 1944. Drancy was a transit camp near Paris, where Jews were held before being deported to extermination camps like Auschwitz.
Source: Poliakov, Léon & Wulf, Josef. Das Dritte Reich und die Juden: Dokumente und Aufsätze. p. 284
Source ID: 43